Data Volume Measure
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A Data Volume Measure is a data measure for some data source.
- Context:
- output: a Data Volume Value.
- …
- Example(s):
- a Digital Bit.
- a Byte.
- a Bytes per Day.
- a Quantum Bit.
- …
- See: Data Volume Analysis, File Size, Dimensionless Quantity.
References
2021
- (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/units_of_information Retrieved:2021-6-8.
- In computing and telecommunications, a unit of information is the capacity of some standard data storage system or communication channel, used to measure the capacities of other systems and channels. In information theory, units of information are also used to measure the entropy of random variables and information contained in messages.
The most commonly used units of data storage capacity are the bit, the capacity of a system that has only two states, and the byte (or octet), which is equivalent to eight bits. Multiples of these units can be formed from these with the SI prefixes (power-of-ten prefixes) or the newer IEC binary prefixes (power-of-two prefixes).
- In computing and telecommunications, a unit of information is the capacity of some standard data storage system or communication channel, used to measure the capacities of other systems and channels. In information theory, units of information are also used to measure the entropy of random variables and information contained in messages.
2021
- https://techterms.com/help/data_storage_units_of_measurement
- QUOTE:
- Q: What units of measurement are used for data storage?
- A: The smallest unit of measurement used for measuring data is a bit. A single bit can have a value of either 0 or 1. It may contain a binary value (such as On/Off or True/False), but nothing more. Therefore, a byte, or eight bits, is used as the fundamental unit of measurement for data. A byte can store 28 or 256 different values, which is sufficient to represent standard ASCII characters, such as letters, numbers and symbols. ...
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