different between septillion vs yottabyte

English

Etymology

From French septillion, from sept- (“seven”) +? -illion

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sep?til?lion
• Rhymes: -?lj?n

Numeral

septillion

1. (US, modern British & Australian, short scale) A trillion trillion: 1 followed by 24 zeros, 10²⁴.
2. (dated British & Australian, long scale) A billion quintillion: 1 followed by 42 zeros, 10⁴².

Synonyms

• (10²⁴): a long scale quadrillion
• (10⁴²): a short scale tredecillion

Translations

See also

• (short and long scale) Previous: sextillion. Next: octillion.
• yotta-

Anagrams

• pointillés

English

Etymology

yotta- +? byte

Noun

yottabyte (plural yottabytes)

1. (computing) One septillion (10²⁴) bytes. SI symbol: YB.
   • 2012, James Bamford, Wired: The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

     [...] the Pentagon is attempting to expand its worldwide communications network, known as the Global Information Grid, to handle yottabytes (10²⁴ bytes) of data. (A yottabyte is a septillion bytes—so large that no one has yet coined a term for the next higher magnitude.)

Translations

See also

• yobibyte

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English yottabyte.

Noun

yottabyte m (plural yottabytes)

1. (computing) yottabyte (one septillion bytes)

Synonyms

• Abbreviations: YB

Coordinate terms

• Multiples of the byte: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte

Related terms

• yottabit
• yobibyte