Do you know what 'bits' refer to?

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Do you know what 'bits' refer to?

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Post by Heroine of the Dragon » Mon May 08, 2023 2:19 am

Maybe if I give you more clues... the word bytes...


megabytes

gigabytes

terabyte

now you know... what measurement term comes next? And the next three?
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Re: Do you know what 'bits' refer to?

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Post by CaptHayfever » Mon May 08, 2023 8:51 pm

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Re: Do you know what 'bits' refer to?

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Post by Booyakasha » Mon May 08, 2023 9:51 pm

I thought 'pico'-, 'femto-' and 'atto-' were next, but I was going in the wrong direction. I probably wouldn't want to buy a hard drive with 3 attobytes of storage capacity.
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