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septillion | yottabyte |

As a numeral septillion

is (US; modern British & Australian, short scale) A trillion trillion: 1 followed by 24 zeros, 1024.

As a noun yottabyte is

one septillion (1024) bytes. SI symbol: YB.

septillion

English

Numeral

(head)
  • (US; modern British & Australian, ) A trillion trillion: 1 followed by 24 zeros, 1024.
  • (dated British & Australian, ) A billion quintillion: 1 followed by 42 zeros, 1042.

    • See also

    * (short and long scale) Previous': sextillion. ' Next : octillion.

    Synonyms

    * 1024: a quadrillion * 1042: a tredecillion

    Anagrams

    * English cardinal numbers

    yottabyte

    English

    (wikipedia yottabyte)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) One septillion (1024) bytes. SI symbol: YB.
  • * 2012 , James Bamford, Wired: The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)
    • [...] the Pentagon is attempting to expand its worldwide communications network, known as the Global Information Grid, to handle yottabytes (1024 bytes) of data. (A yottabyte is a septillion bytes—so large that no one has yet coined a term for the next higher magnitude.)

    See also

    * yobibyte ----