This tip defines the following computer memory terms: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, and yottabyte.
Computers and storage mechanisms (CD-ROMs, hard drives, USB flash drives, DVD-ROMs, Blu-ray Discs, etc.) need to hold much larger values than what a byte can hold (0-255). Thus, the terms kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, and yottabyte were created to represent such large amounts of information.
The definition of a kilobyte (KB) is 1,024 bytes; however many people think of it as 1,000 bytes….
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