peta-
Thousand trillion multiplier
Peta- is a metric prefix meaning one quadrillion (10¹⁵).
A petabyte is a quadrillion bytes—roughly the storage needed to hold several million hours of video.
The prefix appears mainly in scientific and computing contexts: The data center processes petabytes of information daily.
scientific
Ten to the fifteenth
- notationSystem of written symbols
- exponentialIncreasing by constant ratio
- physicsScience of matter and energy
- energyPower to do work
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quadrillion
Ten to the fifteenth
- notationSystem of written symbols
- exponentialIncreasing by constant ratio
- physicsScience of matter and energy
energy · frequency · power · distance · units · calculation · research · laboratory · measurement · quantification
petabit
Quadrillion-bit data unit
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