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To: elpolvo who wrote (27878)7/29/2003 9:51:35 AM
From: Mannie  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 104191
 
<petabyte? you should know, you have a parrot for a pet...
OUCH! <g>>

Wrong!

A petabyte is the lunch special at a greek restaurant.

sheesh.....
ka bob



To: elpolvo who wrote (27878)7/29/2003 11:07:36 AM
From: lurqer  Respond to of 104191
 
one million gigabytes

That was my last post last night. As I was climbing into bed, I was thinking that since a petabyte is a million gigabytes and


8,000 million bits -> 1,000 million bytes
                   -> 1,000 MegaBytes
                   -> 1 GigaByte



what the author had probably written was petabyte size, or 8,000 million million bits. Now we know what a math phobic, English major editor would do to that "stuttering" construction.

Just a bedtime thought.

lurqer


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