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To: Greg Hull who wrote (22737)6/16/1999 12:45:00 AM
From: George Dawson  Read Replies (2) of 29386
 
Some new data mining terms from Nature:

terabyte = one trillion bytes
petabyte = 1,000 terabytes
exabyte = 1,000 petabytes
zetabyte = 1,000 exabytes
yottabyte = 1,000 zetabytes or 10^24 bytes.

Some other facts of interest:

- All the words ever spoken by human beings to date -> estimated at 5 exabytes.

- Three years ago, the total archived data of the NYSE was one petabyte.

- CERNs Large Hadron collider will crank out 20 petabytes of particle data every three years.

- The total amount of networked data increases by 4 orders of magnitude every 10 years.

George D.

Ref: Reichhardt T. Nature 1999; 399: 517-520.
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