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Tera

Tera (symbol: T) is a prefix in the SI system of units denoting 10¹², or 1 000 000 000 000.

In computer science tera can sometimes mean 1 099 511 627 776 (2⁴⁰), instead of 1 000 000 000 000 especially when used to prefix the byte, giving a terabyte. To avoid this ambiguity, the term tebibyte has been introduced for 2⁴⁰ bytes, but this is not yet widely used.

See also

• SI prefixes
• Binary prefix

External link

• BIPM website

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