ORDERS(7)

💖 ORDERS 💖

ok so bestie, this is orders from the Miscellaneous Information Manual — the actual glow-up guide to orders of magnitude ✨ buckle up, because numbers are about to be iconic.

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so literally the whole point of this page: it's a cheat sheet of common multiples of bytes, and it's giving very organized. The table below lists common multiples of bytes — here's the exact tea:

• Kilobyte — prefix kB, power of 2: 2^10, power of 10: 10^3
• Megabyte — prefix MB, power of 2: 2^20, power of 10: 10^6
• Gigabyte — prefix GB, power of 2: 2^30, power of 10: 10^9
• Terabyte — prefix TB, power of 2: 2^40, power of 10: 10^12
• Petabyte — prefix PB, power of 2: 2^50, power of 10: 10^15
• Exabyte — prefix EB, power of 2: 2^60, power of 10: 10^18
• Zettabyte — prefix ZB, power of 2: 2^70, power of 10: 10^21
• Yottabyte — prefix YB, power of 2: 2^80, power of 10: 10^24
• Ronnabyte — prefix RB, power of 2: 2^90, power of 10: 10^27
• Quettabyte — prefix QB, power of 2: 2^100, power of 10: 10^30

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next up, bit rates 🫶 and these ones are listed as a power of ten — the table below has common bit rates, no cap:

• Bit per second — prefix bit/s, bit per second: 1, byte per second: 0.125
• Byte per second — prefix B/s, bit per second: 8, byte per second: 1
• Kilobit per second — prefix kbit/s, bit per second: 10^3, byte per second: 125
• Kilobyte per second — prefix kB/s, bit per second: 8 * 10^3, byte per second: 1000
• Megabit per second — prefix Mbit/s, bit per second: 10^6, byte per second: 125000
• Megabyte per second — prefix MB/s, bit per second: 8 * 10^6, byte per second: 1000000
• Gigabit per second — prefix Gbit/s, bit per second: 10^9, byte per second: 125000000
• Gigabyte per second — prefix GB/s, bit per second: 8 * 10^9, byte per second: 1000000000
• Terabit per second — prefix Tbit/s, bit per second: 10^12, byte per second: 125000000000
• Terabyte per second — prefix TB/s, bit per second: 8 * 10^12, byte per second: 1000000000000

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and finally 🎀 the main character table: common orders of magnitude, also as a power of ten. Every single row, bestie, because we don't skip:

• Nonillionth — order 10^-30, prefix quecto, symbol q, decimal 0.000000000000000000000000000001
• Octillionth — order 10^-27, prefix ronto, symbol r, decimal 0.000000000000000000000000001
• Septillionth — order 10^-24, prefix yocto, symbol y, decimal 0.000000000000000000000001
• Sextillionth — order 10^-21, prefix zepto, symbol z, decimal 0.000000000000000000001
• Quintillionth — order 10^-18, prefix atto, symbol a, decimal 0.000000000000000001
• Quadrillionth — order 10^-15, prefix femto, symbol f, decimal 0.000000000000001
• Trillionth — order 10^-12, prefix pico, symbol p, decimal 0.000000000001
• Billionth — order 10^-9, prefix nano, symbol n, decimal 0.000000001
• Millionth — order 10^-6, prefix micro, symbol mu, decimal 0.000001
• Thousandth — order 10^-3, prefix milli, symbol m, decimal 0.001
• Hundredth — order 10^-2, prefix centi, symbol c, decimal 0.01
• Tenth — order 10^-1, prefix deci, symbol d, decimal 0.1
• One — order 10^0, prefix -, symbol -, decimal 1
• Ten — order 10^1, prefix deca, symbol da, decimal 10
• Hundred — order 10^2, prefix hecto, symbol h, decimal 100
• Thousand — order 10^3, prefix kilo, symbol k, decimal 1000
• Million — order 10^6, prefix mega, symbol M, decimal 1000000
• Billion — order 10^9, prefix giga, symbol G, decimal 1000000000
• Trillion — order 10^12, prefix tera, symbol T, decimal 1000000000000
• Quadrillion — order 10^15, prefix peta, symbol P, decimal 1000000000000000
• Quintillion — order 10^18, prefix exa, symbol E, decimal 1000000000000000000
• Sextillion — order 10^21, prefix zetta, symbol Z, decimal 1000000000000000000000
• Septillion — order 10^24, prefix yotta, symbol Y, decimal 1000000000000000000000000
• Octillion — order 10^27, prefix ronna, symbol R, decimal 1000000000000000000000000000
• Nonillion — order 10^30, prefix quetta, symbol Q, decimal 1000000000000000000000000000000

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

go read these next, fr fr:

• units(1)
• number(6)

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🦋 STANDARDS 🦋

okay so this part is a little messy ngl. There have been various attempts to standardize the set of binary prefixes. Organizations such as International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) have proposed new prefixes such as “kibi”, “mebi”, “gibi”, and “yobi” — but the adoption has been slow at best. 💀 like, slow slow. We're talking glacial. We're talking "still waiting" energy. 🫠

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

This manual page was written by Jukka Ruohonen <jruoho@netbsd.org>. Shoutout to Jukka, absolute legend. 🌟

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💜 cute little sign-off: this page comes from Debian, dated November 20, 2022, and yes it's filed under ORDERS(7) — go forth and know your prefixes, bestie. slay ✨💅🎀