Everything gets a bit silly after the kb.
Everyone agrees that 1kilobyte = 1024bytes
This is because 2 to the power of 10 is 1024 and back in the olden days everything was related to powers of 2 because that's how binary works and it's more intuitive in terms of bits.
Conventionally then, there should be 1024kb to 1Mb because it is supposed to go in increments of 2 to the power of 10, but some people (and some companies) quote 1Mb = 1000kb.
So watch your behind!
Cheers.
2007-01-13 01:36:14
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answer #1
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answered by chopchubes 4
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In binary there are:
1111111111 bytes in a Kb which is 1,024 bytes
1111111111 Kb in a Mb which is 1,024 Kb
This makes
11111111111111111111 bytes in a Mb or 1,048,576 bytes
Same goes for a Gb, this is:
111111111111111111111111111111 bytes or 1,073,741,824 bytes.
This is why when you get a 100Gb harddisk from a manufacturer, you actually get 93.13Gb upon formatting, because the manufacturer sells it to you as 1Gb = 1,000,000,000 bytes, whereas the computer measures it correctly.
100,000,000,000/1,073,741,824 is the real amount of Gigabytage you really get.
Of course you don't really lose anything because you think you're being sold 100,000,000,000 bytes of space...and you are!
2007-01-13 02:46:35
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answer #2
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answered by vincerhodes 1
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1000 Bytes = 1 KB
1000 Kb = 1 MB
1000 MB = 1 GB
2007-01-13 01:30:45
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answer #3
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answered by Anonymous
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1024
2007-01-13 05:11:57
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answer #4
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answered by Dan 3
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1024
2007-01-13 03:43:02
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answer #5
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answered by tigerhawkro 2
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1024
2007-01-13 01:32:32
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answered by Anonymous
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1024
2007-01-13 01:29:40
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answer #7
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answered by John W 2
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There are 8 bits to a byte. 1024 kilo bytes to a mega byte and 1024 mega bytes to a giga byte.
2007-01-13 11:36:35
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answer #8
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answered by ManoGod 6
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1024KiloByte = 1 MegaByte
1024MegaByte = 1 GigaByte
1024GigaByte = 1 TeraByte
and so on
2007-01-13 02:10:25
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answer #9
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answered by urs4yrs 1
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1000Byte= 1 KiloByte
1000KiloByte = 1 MegaByte
1000MegaByte = 1 GigaByte
1000GigaByte = 1 TeraByte
and so on
2007-01-13 01:29:00
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answer #10
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answered by ? 2
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