how many 1.5 KB files will fit on a 1.44 MB floppy?

Answer 1

it will be around 983 because there's 1024 KB to 1 MB

Answer 2

You could fit, 982, 1.5 KB files into a 1.44 MB floppy diskette.

Well in general, there are 1024 KB in one MB, 1024 MB in one GB, and 1024 GB in one TB and so on. Knowing this tidbit of info makes your question very simple. All you have to do is multiply the amount of MB available, 1.44, by 1024, so:

1.44 X 1024 = 1474.56 KB, lets just call it 1474 KB.

Then you would devide that number by the size of the file:

1474 KB / 1.5 KB = 982.66667, lets just call that 982, no rounding when its dealing with volume.

So now you know that you can fit exactly 982, 1.5 KB files on your 1.44 MB floppy.

Just to make sure, I copied 982 copies of a 1.5 KB file into a folder, and it was just under 1.44 MB, so your good.

Just for the heck of it, I also decided to compress that folder, and oddly enought, it cut off about 30-40 KB, about 20 or 25 extra 1.5 KB files. Both ZIP and RAR compression have a significant decrease is size, especially when your dealing with such a small amout of space.

Well I hope I helped you, and dont forget, all you need to know is the magic number, 1024, and then just the order, (Bit, Byte, Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terrabyte, Zottobyte, Zettabyte, and Brontobyte if I remember correctly). Well it was a pleasure helping you, if you ever have any computer related problems, I'm pretty much always on Yahoo! Messenger under wiltzandrew1989, and you can email me whenever you want at [e-mail].

And I bid you farewell,
-Andrew

Answer 3

Are you serious!
Technical... Bytes to KB:
OK the story is that 1KB is 1000 bytes. Not true, it's actually 1024 bytes but 1KB is close enough. (within 2.5 percent) there are 1000 KB (kilobytes) in 1 MB (megabyte) or 1,000,000 bytes. K is usually referring to hard memory or actual ram and usually referenced as 1k, 4k, 16, 32k, 64k and on up while KB refers to storage capacity which brings us to the 1.44mb floppy. As you probably figured out by now it will hold 1,440,000 bytes or about a million and half, not much considering the new hard drives are now in the GB range.
1 GB = 1000MB
1MB = 1000KB
1 KB = 1000 bytes (1024 to be exact)


A Floppy has 1474.56KB on it, to 1474.56 divided by 1.5.. Is
983

Answer 4

1 MB = 1024 KB
1.44 MB = 1.44 * 1024 = 1474.56 KB
1474.56 / 1.5 = 983.04 Files

Answer 5

There are aprox 1000 KB to a MB, so 960.

Answer 6

960

Answer 7

Do the math:

1,440,000 divided by 1500 = 960 files

Answer 8

not sure how your doing your math, but keep in mind that a kilobyte is really 1024 bytes, and a floppy formatted is like 1.38MB so the 1.5KB is really 1.536 and the floopy is 1.413 so the closer answer is 920

Answer 9

Cluster size is 512bytes. It would take about 3 clusters to store 1 file. 1.44mb would contain about 1464000 bytes.
So 2859 clusters or ~953 files.