Sunday, January 31, 2010

Sunday Trivia

The answer to yesterday's question is:
1517.

Today's question is, the first in Computers Week, is:
In only a few years, desktop computer hard drives have gone from megabyte size, to gigabyte, to terabyte. What is the next larger term, meaning 10^15 bytes?
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11 comments:

  1. Eric W.4:07 PM

    Petabyte.

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  2. Anonymous4:34 PM

    Exabyte.

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  3. gbradley6:59 PM

    I wanna say PetaByte, but that just sounds wrong on so many levels.

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  4. PeggyU7:50 PM

    Porkulusbyte? I don't know ...

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  5. ChrisA7:55 PM

    Well I know a "google" is somewhere up the line, just not sure if it's 10^15 or not. To date myself, I worked on one of the first 5 megabyte 5 1/4" drives.

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  6. Anonymous7:04 AM

    Peta is up next: 1E+15.
    Exa: 1E+18
    Zetta: 1E+21
    Yotta: 1E+24

    A googol is way out there; a googolplex even farther.

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  7. Unknown7:35 AM

    Petabyte....

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  8. allen (in Michigan)10:11 AM

    petabyte

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  9. mpc3:37 PM

    Darren, Hi. I really liked your blog. I'm a pretty hard core conservative myself. I can't figure out how to contact you though. If you can, please E-mail me. I have teacher questions for you. I'm trying to get credentialed in math. Help! Thanks.

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  10. Anonymous4:25 PM

    Bigassbyte?

    George

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  11. Darren5:09 PM

    I only memorized what Mr. Tsuda had on the poster on his classroom wall when I was in 11th/12th grades:
    exa peta tera giga mega kilo hecto deka deci centi milli micro nano pico femto atto

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