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Geeky Russian Nesting Dolls

Here’s the sequence from bit, byte, … terabyte as a set of Russian nesting dolls. But why stop at terabyte? Let’s keep going: petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte, kibibyte, mebibyte, gibibyte, tebibyte, pebibyte, exbibyte, zebibyte, yobibyte. I wonder if they ever build nesting dolls with that many levels?

A yobibyte (yotta binary byte) is 280 bytes. The average human body contains roughly 7 * 1027 atoms. If you could somehow harness each atom to represent a bit of data, that would be roughly 700 yobibytes of storage.

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