bytes/kilobytes

[River~]

this might sound stupid but I was just sitting here trying to figure out how many kilobytes there are in one meg, and i found all the figures for a byte, and a kilobyte but I'll be darn, all those figures got me mixed up and confussed.

someone help me with this ok?

one meg has how many kilobytes?
thanks tons

[M. A. Dockter]

1TB = 1024GB
1GB = 1024MB
<b>1MB= 1024KB</b>
1KB = 1024 bytes
1Byte=8 bits
1 bit = a "1" or a "0"

Notice the 1024 factor. 1024 = 2^10 while 10^2 = 1000. Hard Drive makers use 10^2 KB as Megabyte while most operating systems and RAM makers use 2^10 KB as a MegaByte.

[Edited by M A Dockter on 10-12-2000 at 02:16 PM]

[glc]

Officially there are 1024 bytes in a kilobyte, and 1024 kilobytes in a megabyte, and 1024 megabytes in a gigabyte. However, sometimes this is rounded off to 1000 (especially by hard drive manufacturers). A 10 "gigabyte" hard drive may only contain 10,000,000,000 bytes - which is really 9.31 gigabytes.

[DougL]

Hi River, you got me thinking there, i believe there are 1024 kilobytes in a Megabyte.

[M. A. Dockter]

I forgot to mention glc and I can read each other's minds :)

Got ya by 2 mintues glc!

[glc]

Dok - I woulda gotcha except I'm on my 486 laptop - 28.8 modem - and a sticky keyboard today! (My NT box is doing a boot time defrag which will take all day)

Damn - Netscape 4.7 is slow on this pig!

I know......excuses, excuses........hehehehehe!

[River~]

ok, thanks tons everyone!

I had the 1024 for each, and then for some reason when I figured up the math for the megabyte, it just didn't look right.

appreciate the effort from everyone!

[Chris in U.K.]

...don't you wish that bios, utilities and various system tools would put a comma in every 3 digits when quoting byte numbers.....the other day I thought I had found a 3GB HDD, then I counted the digits and realised it was only 300MB...but then again it didn't cost me anything!
Chris.