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Petabyte (10^15 bytes) (PB (10^15))
A decimal petabyte equals 1 quadrillion bytes, a capacity used in cloud data centers, AI training sets, and global archival projects. Organizations like scientific research institutes, major cloud providers, and financial institutions routinely manage petabyte-scale data, requiring specialized infrastructure, redundancy strategies, and data governance. The shift from terabytes to petabytes marks a tipping point where storage strategy must incorporate distributed systems, advanced compression, and scalable metadata management.
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.