Digital Data

Charles Babbage's grand mechanical computing design that anchors modern digital conversions.

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The fundamental binary digit of digital information holding either a 0 or a 1.

1 bit

Coined by Werner Buchholz in 1956 and deliberately misspelled to prevent accidental mutation to "bit".

8 bits

A minor digital storage unit consisting of two bits, representing a quarter of an 8-bit byte.

2 bits

Exactly 1,073,741,824 bytes, being two to the power of thirty, and the binary counterpart to the decimal gigabyte.

1,073,741,824 bytes = 1.074 gigabytes

A massive storage leap introduced into commercial computing when the first 1GB hard drive debuted in 1980.

1,000,000,000 bytes

Exactly 1,024 bytes, being two to the power of ten, and the binary counterpart to the decimal kilobyte.

1,024 bytes = 1.024 kilobytes

One thousand bytes under the SI definition, though for decades it was used loosely to mean 1,024.

1,000 bytes

Exactly 1,048,576 bytes, being two to the power of twenty, and the binary counterpart to the decimal megabyte.

1,048,576 bytes = 1.049 megabytes

A unit of digital information representing roughly one million bytes.

1,000,000 bytes

A four-bit computing unit (half a byte) coined to represent a single hexadecimal digit.

4 bits

Exactly 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes, being two to the power of fifty, and the binary counterpart to the decimal petabyte.

1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes = 1.126 petabytes

One quadrillion bytes, being a thousand terabytes, and the working unit of large-scale data storage.

1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes = 1,000 terabytes

Exactly 1,099,511,627,776 bytes, being two to the power of forty, and the binary counterpart to the decimal terabyte.

1,099,511,627,776 bytes = 1.1 terabytes

A massive modern unit representing a trillion bytes of digital storage.

1,000,000,000,000 bytes