why not 100,200,300,etc???
2006-08-09 14:13:46 · 5 answers · asked by MMike 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Binary notation is by 2's. Decimal notation is by 10's.
You are taught to think in base ten notation. I assure you that if you were taught to think in base 2 (binary), or base 8 (Octal), base 10 (decimal) would seem very foreign!
1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096 are the progressions of binary by the square of the number.
Oh, and, I can count in binary, with my mittens and shoes ON!
2006-08-09 14:48:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In computers everything is in binary (0's and 1's) so instead of going up in multiples of 10 (10, 100, 1000 etc) it goes up in multiples of 2 - 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024
2006-08-09 21:20:28 · answer #2 · answered by Trevor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because 1024 bytes equals 1 kilobyte, 1024KB = 1MB, 1024MB=1GB, 1024GB = 1TB
but the real reason is because, all are pretty close to a terminating answer when divided by 1024 (1 GB). and when you get to 1GB (1024 MB), it equals a 1, which proves that 1GB = 1024MB
2006-08-09 21:22:16 · answer #3 · answered by alco19357 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It go by binary number.
2006-08-09 21:24:54 · answer #4 · answered by chez 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I never quite understood that either...hmmm I think we both need this answered.
2006-08-09 21:18:51 · answer #5 · answered by Krusd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋