petabit

Shorthand for 1,000,000,000,000,000 (1015) bits.

The base 10 convention is commonly found in I/O-related and scientific literature; the base 2 convention (1,125,899,906,842,624, i.e., 250) is commonly used for memory capacity.

See also pebibit.

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