Vinyl to Digital Transfer- The rakeford method

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So let me get this straight, 1 EB = a gazillion bytes.

Acually no, an EB = 1 exabyte = 1000^6 Bytes = 1000,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes is a real bona fide technical term, see Wiki [1]. Think of it as a million TeraBytes (TB) or a billion GigaBytes (GB).

A gazillion is often used as fictitious names for an unspecified, large number by analogy to names of large numbers, see Wiki quotes below.

But, you probably already knew this!

"The English language has a number of words for indefinite and fictitious numbers — inexact terms of indefinite size, used for comic effect, for exaggeration, as placeholder names, or when precision is unnecessary or undesirable." [2]

"-illion
Words ending in the sound "-illion", such as zillion,^[3] jillion,^[4] and gazillion,^[5] are often used as fictitious names for an unspecified, large number by analogy to names of large numbers such as million, billion and trillion. Their size is dependent upon the context, but can typically be considered large enough to be unfathomable." [2]



[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exabyte
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazillion