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Pebibyte

Term · Computing and IT · MLC-T-CMP-000904

A unit of digital information storage, abbreviated as PiB, representing 2 to the power of 50 bytes. This is equivalent to 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes. The pebibyte is part of the binary prefixes defined by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) to distinguish them from the decimal prefixes used for petabytes.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-CMP-000904
FieldComputing and IT
SubjectBits and Bytes
Record as JSON
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  "id": "MLC-T-CMP-000904",
  "term": "Pebibyte",
  "field": "Computing and IT",
  "definition": "A unit of digital information storage, abbreviated as PiB, representing 2 to the power of 50 bytes. This is equivalent to 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes. The pebibyte is part of the binary prefixes defined by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) to distinguish them from the decimal prefixes used for petabytes.",
  "subject": "Bits and Bytes",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/computing/pebibyte/"
}

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