 | Numeric prefixes: | kilo: 1000 (e.g. a 3Kbyte file) | sometimes 1K = 216 = 1024 |
| mega: 1,000,000 (e.g. a 200 MHz CPU) | giga: 1,000,000,000 (e.g. a 2Gbyte hard disk) | tera: 1,000,000,000,000 (e.g. a Tbyte database) | milli: 1/1,000 (e.g. 3 usec disk access) | nano: 1/1,000,000 (e.g. light moves 1 foot/nsec) | | | | | |
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