names and approximate values


  size                   frequency  floating point operations per second  
  
kilobyte   10^3   2^10   kilohertz  kiloflops
megabyte   10^6   2^20   megahertz  megaflops
gigabyte   10^9   2^30   gigahertz  gigaflops
terabyte   10^12  2^40   terahertz  teraflops
petabyte   10*15  2^50   petahertz  petaflops
exabyte    10^18  2^60   exahertz   exaflops

  time
  
milisecond   10^-3   2^-10 
microsecond  10^-6   2^-20
nanosecond   10^-9   2^-30
picosecond   10^-12  2^-40
  

Last updated 10/28/2019