Units of data

In 1948, Claude Shannon, an American mathematician, published the Mathematical theory of communication. It is from this point in history that we can say that such a branch of Cybernetics as information theory began to develop. After reading the book, people said that the book is meaningful or empty. But no one then could have imagined that the amount of information on its pages could be determined with great accuracy. Shannon was able to achieve this, so people began to measure the amount of information with the same ease as we measure the length of an object or its mass. The unit of information measurement is the bit. Most of us know other units of data such as byte, KB( kilobyte), MB( megabyte), G( gigabyte), T( terabyte). But what units of information measurement come after terabyte? . I am pretty sure that most of you don’t know about these units of measurement and not eager to learn about them. Why? The answer is simple. We just don’t need them. In the modern world, 1 terabyte of memory is enough for people. I’m not talking about 1024 terabytes. This raises a very interesting question. Why then were other units of information measurement created, which are much larger than terabytes. Before answering the question, I would like to show you the units of measurement of information and their conversions from one unit to another.

1 Bit is the minimum unit of information

8 Bits = 1 Byte

1024 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte

1024 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte

1024 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte

1024 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte

1024 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte

1024 Petabytes = 1 Exobyte

1024 Exobytes = 1 Zettabyte

1024 Zettabytes = 1 Yottabyte

Most of you may have already guessed that this amount of memory is necessary for storing information in such global online platforms as Google, YouTube, instagram and etc. But who knows what new inventions are waiting for us in the future. After all, science is developing every day and the inventions of mankind are improving with even greater speed. And who knows maybe in the near future the use of petabytes or yottabytes will seem normal to us as the use of gigabytes or other units less than a Gigabyte today.