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When is a terabyte not a terabyte?
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Consider the following exchange from the generally excellent public radio show, On The Media. BROOKE GLADSTONE: Mathematician Martin Wattenberg observed in Wired that the sum total of all the words you'll hear in your lifetime amount to less than a terabyte of text. So then how much is a petabyte? CHRIS ANDERSON: A petabyte is, mathematically it is, you know, 1,000 terabytes, but we have a hard time understanding that scale. We usually use the sort of, you know, the Library of Congress, as an example. The Library of Congress is sort of, you know, on the - you know, on a couple of terabytes scale; a petabyte’s a thousand of those.
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