{"id":135,"date":"2013-10-18T15:33:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T15:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emmatonkin.com\/parley\/?p=135"},"modified":"2013-10-18T16:27:12","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T16:27:12","slug":"visualising-bytes-to-zebibytes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emmatonkin.com\/talk\/2013\/10\/18\/visualising-bytes-to-zebibytes\/","title":{"rendered":"Visualising scale: from bytes to zebibytes on a linear distance scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>If one byte\u00a0<\/strong>is the thickness of a single coat of paint (0.03cm) then&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>One kibibyte:<\/strong> laptop screen size, 14 in \/35cm<br \/>\n<strong>One mebibyte:<\/strong> height of revolving restaurant on CN tower, Toronto, 360 m<br \/>\n<strong>One gibibyte:<\/strong> distance from London Heathrow to Amsterdam Schiphol, 370km<br \/>\n<strong>One tebibyte:<\/strong> distance from Earth to Moon, 384400km<br \/>\n<strong>One pebibyte:<\/strong> Maximum distance between Earth and Mars, 400,000,000km<br \/>\n<strong>One exbibyte:<\/strong> One percent of the distance to Proxima Centauri, 0.04 light years<br \/>\n<strong>One zebibyte:<\/strong> Distance of the star Capella from Earth, 41 light-years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; If one byte\u00a0is the thickness of a single coat of paint (0.03cm) then&#8230; One kibibyte: laptop screen size, 14 in \/35cm One mebibyte: height of revolving restaurant on CN tower, Toronto, 360 m One gibibyte: distance from London Heathrow <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.emmatonkin.com\/talk\/2013\/10\/18\/visualising-bytes-to-zebibytes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Visualising scale: from bytes to zebibytes on a linear distance scale<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emmatonkin.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emmatonkin.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emmatonkin.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emmatonkin.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emmatonkin.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.emmatonkin.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/www.emmatonkin.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emmatonkin.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emmatonkin.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emmatonkin.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emmatonkin.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}