Vocab 3

File Size Terminology
Use the World Wide Web to define the terms listed below.
Put the definitions in your own words to help you remember them easier.

bit

binary code

byte

kilobyte

megabyte

gigabyte

terabyte

petabyte

exabyte

zettabyte

yottabyte

RAM vs ROM

RGB

CMYK

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Resource to start with:
webopedia.com
webmonkey.com
wikipedia.com

File Size Conversion Table
The table below shows the relationship between the file storage sizes that computers use. Binary calculations are based on units of 1,024, and decimal calculations are based on uints of 1,000. It should be noted that decimal calculations are based on units that have been rounded off to the nearest 1,000 and therefore differ from the actual number of bytes used in binary calculations.

 

Name

Symbol

Binary Measurement

Decimal Measurement

Number of Bytes

Equal to

kilobyte

KB

2^10

10^3

1,024

1,024 bytes

megabyte

MB

2^20

10^6

1,048,576

1,024KB

gigabyte

GB

2^30

10^9

1,073,741,824

1,024MB

terabyte

TB

2^40

10^12

1,099,511,627,776

1,024GB

petabyte

PB

2^50

10^15

1,125,899,906,842,624

1,024TB

exabyte

EB

2^60

10^18

1,152,921,504,606,846,976

1,024PB

zettabyte

ZB

2^70

10^21

1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424

1,024EB

yottabyte

YB

2^80

10^24

1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176

1,024ZB