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Trillion vs Terabyte - What's the difference?

trillion | terabyte |

As a numeral trillion

is {{cx|US|modern|_|British|Australian|short scale|lang=en}} A million million: 1 followed by twelve zeros, 1012.

As a noun terabyte is

one trillion (1,000,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: TB.

trillion

English

(Long and short scales)

Numeral

(head)
  • A million million: 1 followed by twelve zeros, 1012.
  • A million million million: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 1018.

    • See also

    * (short scale) Previous': billion. ' Next : quadrillion * (long scale) Previous': billiard. ' Next : trilliard * ISO prefix: tera-

    terabyte

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One trillion (1,000,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: TB.
  • (computing, colloquial) Imprecisely, a tebibyte or 10244 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes. SI symbol: TiB, computing symbol: TB.

    • See also

    * Previous: gigabyte * next: petabyte

    References

    * The IEC explanation of its definitions ----