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raccoon

(31,111 posts) Thu Oct 3, 2013, 08:09 AM Oct 2013

Anyone know of a mnemonic for this? I googled but couldn't find one.

B ones “bytes”
KB thousands “kilobytes”
MB millions “megabytes”
GB billions “gigabytes”
TB trillions “terabytes”
PB quadrillions “petabytes”
EB quintillions “exabytes”
ZB sextillions “zettabytes”
YB septillions “yottabytes”

I mean, one for bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, etc.

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Anyone know of a mnemonic for this? I googled but couldn't find one. (Original Post) raccoon Oct 2013 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author Ptah Oct 2013 #1

Be Kind, Miley's Great Twerking Pushes Ecstacy Zingers You'rewelcome. Scuba Oct 2013 #2

Thank you! nt raccoon Oct 2013 #3

Well, assuming you can remember bytes through terabytes... Chan790 Oct 2013 #4

Yottabytes Ron Obvious Oct 2013 #5

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Scuba

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2. Be Kind, Miley's Great Twerking Pushes Ecstacy Zingers You'rewelcome.

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Thu Oct 3, 2013, 08:53 AM

Oct 2013

raccoon

(31,111 posts)

3. Thank you! nt

Reply to Scuba (Reply #2)

Thu Oct 3, 2013, 08:56 AM

Oct 2013

Chan790

(20,176 posts)

4. Well, assuming you can remember bytes through terabytes...

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Thu Oct 3, 2013, 08:57 AM

Oct 2013

which shouldn't be too hard as they're in common frequent usage, the first letter of each of petabytes through yottabytes spells PEZY which sounds like "peasy" as in "easy-peasy" making memorizing their order easy-PEZY.

Sorry, it sucks. I know. It's all I got.

Edit: I see scuba beat me to the punch with something much better.

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)

5. Yottabytes

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Thu Oct 3, 2013, 11:23 AM

Oct 2013

The new NSA data centre is rumoured to store yottabytes of information.

I say that for what it's worth, which is probably not much.

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