256000000000

256000000000 is a decimal numeral representing two hundred fifty-six billion (2.56 × 10^11). It equals 256 × 10^9 and ends with nine trailing zeros in decimal notation. Its prime factorization is 2^17 × 5^9, showing it is divisible by large powers of two and five.

In computing, numbers near 256 × 10^9 are commonly used as rounded figures for data size and bandwidth. As a byte count, 256,000,000,000 bytes equals 256 gigabytes (GB) under the decimal definition of a gigabyte (1 GB = 10^9 bytes). In binary terms, this amount corresponds to about 238.4 gibibytes (GiB), since 1 GiB = 2^30 bytes.

By contrast, 256 gibibytes equal 274,877,906,944 bytes, illustrating the difference between decimal and binary units that often appears in storage specifications. The decimal value 256000000000 is close to 2^38 (274,877,906,944), being about 93.1% of that power of two.

In arithmetic terms, 256000000000 is a composite number with factorization 2^17 × 5^9; it is divisible by 256 and by many other integers. As a large round figure, it is commonly encountered in contexts involving data capacity, memory sizing, and numeric benchmarks.