Nibbles and Bytes

quoia

ricksExpensive wrote:

..........But did you know the highest term for space used at the moment (to my knowledge) is a

"Brontobyte - that is a 1 followed by 27 zeroes"

Just thought i would share that with you! LMFAO! If theres something bigger though please do correct me!

You might be interested in reading this article that I found the other day (although published OVER 2 YEARS ago - Sept '04)

I like the last bit - quote:

"If I've learned anything from Depeche Mode and my old 64Mb player, it's that 32 petabytes probably won't be enough. So it must only be a matter of time before the exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte and finally the brontobyte media player appears on the market.

A brontobyte is million million petabytes, enough to store everything that's ever been filmed, taped, photographed, recorded, written, spoken, and probably even thought.
Still, it would probably be wise to wait for the 10 bront model, just to be on the safe side. :rotfl:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3673262.stm

Avoriaz

ricksExpensive wrote:

…But did you know the highest term for space used at the moment (to my knowledge) is a

"Brontobyte - that is a 1 followed by 27 zeroes"

Just thought i would share that with you! LMFAO! If theres something bigger though please do correct me!

The biggest number I know is googol which is 1 x 10 to the power 100 or 1 followed by 100 zeros but this is not used (yet) in computing.

To try and give some perspective, if you counted all the atoms in the universe, the total would be less than googol.

It is a BIG number and yes, that is where google got their name.

stevemcol

Bigger number still is: googolplex = 10 to the power googol

John_Gray

Surely the biggest number is infinity?

John

Avoriaz

Infinity to the power of infinity is even bigger.:p

And so on.

shane8961

Avoriaz wrote:

Infinity to the power of infinity is even bigger.:p

And so on.

Inifinty isnt a number

Also, we "learnt" about nybbles is A-Level IT, however it was along the lines of:

"There are 8 bits in a byte, also just for completeness a nybble is 4 bits, but you dont need to know that so you can forget it"

Avoriaz

shane8961 wrote:

Inifinty isnt a number ..

Inifinty isn't even a word.:p

superscaper

Avoriaz wrote:

Infinity to the power of infinity is even bigger.:p

And so on.

I believe Continuum is actually larger and the largest form of infinity you can mathematically have.

quoia

Al_Mac wrote:

Never heard of a nybble, nibble or the like. I've been an IBM man for 24 years

I'm not surprised from my experience of IBM.

In which case you will not know about the CRUMB either !

Avoriaz

superscaper wrote:

I believe Continuum is actually larger and the largest form of infinity you can mathematically have.

I looked that up and now my head hurts.:eek: