how many mega bytes make a giga byte.?

Answer 1

1 GB= 1024MB

Answer 2

--> UNDERSTANDING GIGABYTES When people buy computers, they're told they're getting a hard drive of a certain size--80 gigabytes, perhaps. But when they check the computer they find only 74GB. Where did the other 6GB go? This is the difference between marketing and math. As far as marketers are concerned, 80 billion bytes is 80GB. But it's not. A gigabyte is 1.074 billion bytes (2 to the power of 30). If you divide 80 by 1.074, you'll get 74.6. That's the true number of gigabytes. These round numbers are fairly easy to remember. A kilobyte is 2 to the power of 10 (or 2^10), a megabyte is 2^20, and a terabyte (1.0995 trillion bytes!) is 2^40.

Answer 3

For anyone who says 1000 you are all mathematically wrong

It is 1024 and there is no compromising on that it is tied directly to the fact that computers use Binary [Base 2] and we use Decimal [Base 10] we are used to counting in tens computers are use to counting in exponents of 2 [0, 1]

2 to the power of 10 = 1024

1024 is easier because in binary it is represented as:
10000000000

1000 on the other hand is represented in binary as
1111101000

The first makes more sense when it comes to referencing memory its cleaner and easier to perform binary calculations upon.

Coincidentally the smallest computer size is NOT a byte its a bit and 8 bits make up a byte again its to do with Binary.

Just remember 1024 is the step number and you will be fine.

Answer 4

--> UNDERSTANDING GIGABYTES
When people buy computers, they're told they're getting a hard drive of
a certain size--80 gigabytes, perhaps. But when they check the computer
they find only 74GB. Where did the other 6GB go?

This is the difference between marketing and math. As far as marketers
are concerned, 80 billion bytes is 80GB. But it's not. A gigabyte is
1.074 billion bytes (2 to the power of 30). If you divide 80 by 1.074,
you'll get 74.6. That's the true number of gigabytes.

These round numbers are fairly easy to remember. A kilobyte is 2 to
the power of 10 (or 2^10), a megabyte is 2^20, and a terabyte (1.0995
trillion bytes!) is 2^40.

Few people are going to fill up that so-called 80GB drive, regardless
of the stated size. Still, I wish marketers were more honest about
hard drive sizes. It should be easy to understand what you're
really getting.

Answer 5

Well "Mega" means 10^6 and "Giga" means 10^9 so its thousand by any mathematical terms. Unless 1mb is not equal to one million bytes it 1000

Answer 6

although many people use a p.c every day of their lives this is a question many get stuck on
the smallest computer size is a byte(1b)1000 bytes make a kilobyte(kb),then a 100kb make a megabyte(mb)
megabytes are probally the most used of all computer capacity,a 100mb makes a gigabyte(gb)and 1000gb makes a terrabyte(tb),then a 1000terrabyte is a petabyte(pb)
petabytes and anything after that are only used on servers and corporate p.c,s
1000 petabytes are a exabyte(eb),then a 1000exabytes are a zettabyte(zb),and finally 1000 zettabytes are a yottabyte(yb)
here is a table with the symbols ect.............
kilobyte (kB) 103 = 10001 210 kibibyte (KiB) 210
megabyte (MB) 106 = 10002 220 mebibyte (MiB) 220
gigabyte (GB) 109 = 10003 230 gibibyte (GiB) 230
terabyte (TB) 1012 = 10004 240 tebibyte (TiB) 240
petabyte (PB) 1015 = 10005 250 pebibyte (PiB) 250
exabyte (EB) 1018 = 10006 260 exbibyte (EiB) 260
zettabyte (ZB) 1021 = 10007 270 zebibyte (ZiB) 270
yottabyte (YB) 1024 = 10008 280 yobibyte (YiB) 280
you probally may never go higher than a 500gb,but more and more home users are now using capacitys of over a terrabyte(1000gb)so you never know
Bill gates,ex cheif of microsoft once said(apparently around 1985) .."512kb should be more than enough for most home users"
this is a statement that he denies to this day,but how wrong he was
i hope this has helped
good luck tony!

Answer 7

1000 bytes = 1 kilobyte
1000 kb = 1 megabyte
1000 mb = 1 gigabyte
1000 gb = 1 terrabyte

Answer 8

Actual 1024mb to a Gigabyte. Ram modules use the correct figure while Hard Drive manufacturers changed the "requirement" to 1000mb inorder to be the first to cross the Megabyte to Gigabyte boundary during the "hard drive wars".

Answer 9

Goes like this: Each unit is multiplied by 1,024 to get the one below. eg: 1,024 megabytes in a gigabyte

bit (basically a single character)
byte (1024 bits)
kilobyte (1024 bytes)
megabyte (1024 kilobytes)
gigabyte (1024 megabyte)
terabyte (1024 gigabytes)
petabyte (1024 terabytes)
exabyte (1024 petabytes)
zettabyte (1024 exabyte)
yottabyte (1024 zettabyte)

Answer 10

1024

Answer 11

1024