Thursday, January 20, 2011

Large Amount of Data

Question : How much of data was generated by LHC in 2010? In other words how many CDs will be required to store that data?
Answer : If the CDs have beeen stacked as a column then the height of that column will be 14 kilometers.

A Caveat :  This was after rejecting 199, 999 of the 200, 000 collisions.

These sizes of data are of the order of peta byte. Above data was 13 peta bytes.

Question : How much is a peta byte.
Answer : That is 1024 tera bytes.

Question : How much is a tera bytes?
Answer : That is 1024 giga bytes.

Question : How much is a giga bytes?
Answer : That is 1024 mega bytes.

Question : How much is a mega bytes?
Answer : That is 1024 kilo bytes.

Question : How much is a kilo bytes?
Answer : That is 1024  bytes.

Question : How much is a bytes?
Answer : That is 8 bits.

Question : What is a bit?
Answer : It is a binary number, it can take only two values 0 1nd 1.

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