Working With Large Numbers

Each kilobyte holds a thousand bytes of electronic storage. Megabytes hold one million and gigabytes hold one billion bytes. Now we are measuring data storage in terabytes which holds one trillion bytes of data each! I now own a network attached storage device which holds twenty terabytes… That is twenty trillion bytes of code! Do you have any idea how big twenty trillion actually is? To give you a general idea, it is approximately the number of dollars of debt we will be in by the year 2016. That concludes your lesson for today. Wake up, America!