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10-12-2000, 01:52 PM
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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 |
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10-12-2000, 02:14 PM
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1TB = 1024GB
1GB = 1024MB 1MB= 1024KB 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] |
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10-12-2000, 02:16 PM
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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.
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10-12-2000, 02:16 PM
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Hi River, you got me thinking there, i believe there are 1024 kilobytes in a Megabyte.
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10-12-2000, 02:20 PM
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I forgot to mention glc and I can read each other's minds
 Got ya by 2 mintues glc! |
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10-12-2000, 02:36 PM
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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! |
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10-12-2000, 03:08 PM
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gotcha ya, thanks
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! |
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10-22-2000, 06:33 PM
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...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. |
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