How many pages of ordinary text is 1-gigabyte equivalent to?

Question

I was guessing around 300 to 500 thousand but a sales-rep at Staples told me about a million-pages. Does anybody really know?

Answer 1

i guess we are having calculation issues. Let me simplify this.
as was stated correctly a standard text page would be 80 characters per line and 24 lines = 1920. since a byte is equal to one character we can then assume that the number of bytes is 1920 per page. a kilobyte is 1024 and a gigabyte is 1024*1024*1024. a gigabyte is equivalent to 1,073,741,824 bytes.

so to calculate the number of pages you can get into one gigabyte, you would divide a gigabyte by one page.

1,073,741,824 / 1920 = 559240.53 pages

Answer 2

Let's imagine a plan text with 80 columns X 24 lines p/page:

80x24x8 bytes(each caracter uses 8 bytes) = 15,360 bytes
15,360 bytes / 1024 bytes (equal to 1 megabyte) = 15Megabytes

1 Page of plan text has 15Megabytes

1 Gigabyte = 1024 Megabytes, then 1024 / 15 = almost 68 pages.

Regards.

Answer 3

Most word files are 50kb-100kb. 1024 KB to a MB, 1024 mb to a gb.
You do the math, i suck at math.


You get way way way way more then 68 pages to a gigabyte!

Answer 4

dude your math is obviously extremely misleading and so are your concepts

a character is not 8 BYTES long but 8 BITS long
dude it is quite obvious if 68 pages of text makes up 1 gigabyte probably just store 20 pdf in your pc will fill ur harddisk man

Answer 5

Good Lord there's some bad math in here. Try 68,000 pages Einstein.

Answer 6

if you're wondering about this maybe for purchasing a flash/thumb drive..it would take a lifetime to use an entire gigabyte with only text files.