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About these units
Character (character)
A character is not a fixed quantity of bytes but rather a conceptual unit representing a single textual symbol. Historically, characters corresponded to one byte under ASCII, allowing for 256 distinct values. With the rise of Unicode, characters now require variable-length encoding—from 1 to 4 bytes in UTF-8, or fixed widths in UTF-16 and UTF-32. This flexibility allows representation of all human writing systems, mathematical symbols, emojis, and historic scripts. Characters are the foundation of text processing, natural-language computing, and human-computer communication. Software engineering, databases, and web technologies must carefully distinguish between characters and bytes to avoid encoding errors and data loss.
Exabyte (10^18 bytes) (EB (10^18))
A decimal exabyte equals exactly 1 quintillion bytes, and it is the standard for expressing large-scale cloud storage and global data production metrics. Industry analysts estimate that total global digital data now exceeds multiple decimal exabytes per year, driven by IoT devices, streaming services, AI workloads, and high-resolution media. The decimal exabyte serves as a measure of humanity's digital footprint, making it one of the most symbolic data units of the information age.