Geopbyte
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Roughly 10³⁰ bytes; 1024 brontobytes. nonstandard
"I don't remember where I found this:[…]1000 Brontobytes = 1 Geopbyte[…]Geopbyte: Not sure why this term was created. It's doubtful that anyone alive today will ever see a Geopbyte hard drive."
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More examples"I don't remember where I found this:[…]1000 Brontobytes = 1 Geopbyte[…]Geopbyte: Not sure why this term was created. It's doubtful that anyone alive today will ever see a Geopbyte hard drive."
Etymology
The term was in use on English-language websites by 2009 (see quotation below). Before that, it had begun to appear on Spanish-language sites by 2007. The earliest known use is in a February 2006 edit to Spanish Wikipedia's "Byte" article by an anonymous contributor, whose immediately preceding edits to another article make it clear that the term was inspired by Korean 겁 (劫, geop), presumably in the sense "kalpa" (an extremely long span of time in Hindu and Buddhist chronology).
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