DahGangalang comments on Einstein-Landauer culinary units

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[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Metric appears to end at 10^30, but even then, I think the better way to phrase that number would be 5,000 quetta-bytes

Tera = 10^12; ~~Septillion~~ Sextillion = 10^21
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[–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

*500 000 quettabytes
*Sextillion = 10^21 ( = Zetta)

I'd recommend wikipedia here, your source seems to have taken 3 years to update their table and their image is still outdated.

They likely didn't use quetta because it was only added 3 years ago, and is still not widely known. Or maybe it sounded better.

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[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 1 point 1 year ago

Derp, that's what happens when you have to bounce between too many pages on mobile.

Thanks for the pointer!

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