queccabyte

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A form of quettabyte — One nonillion (10³⁰) bytes. SI symbol: QB.

Scrabble 28

Meanings

nounqueccabyte (plural queccabytes)

plural queccabytes

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of quettabyte.

    A single queccabyte would have more than enough space for the entire knowledge of every person who has ever been born.

    2019 June 21, Alex Hudson, “Are we running out of numbers?”, in Metro
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    The current times are characterized by a proliferation of data in a number of fields. We see continuous production, with the units of large amounts of data moving from exabytes to zettabytes. So much so that the International Bureau of Weights and Measures has recently introduced new metrics of ronnabytes (10²⁷) and queccabytes (10³⁰) to account for the global growth in data storage requirements.

    2020, Ali R. Hurson, editor, Advances in Computers, volume 119, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 122

Origin

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APA

queccabyte. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/queccabyte

MLA

“queccabyte.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/queccabyte. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “queccabyte,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/queccabyte.

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