which is bigger: 1GB or 4GB on a memory stick!?

Question

Just want to know!

Answer 1

4GB !!!! since 4 is a bigger number than 1

Answer 2

Lots of people have been very nasty to you when answering this question, but I'm going to explain it PROPERLY

Data on a computer it made up of 1s or 0s. Think of an electric circuit, the switch can only be on, 1, or off, 0.

This can be used to count in a number system called binary, as it has the two numbers, 1 & 0.

The system we normally use is called decimal, which obviously has 10 different numbers in it, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.

"Bi..." means two, like bicycle, which has two wheels. "Dec..." means ten, like decahedron, which has ten sides.

So take this table for example

Decimal 8 4 2 1
Binary 0 1 0 1

To convert a binary Nibble, see below, in to decimal, you just add up all the 1s. So on the right hand side, the binary 1 corresponds to the decimal 1, then, moving left, the binary 0 corresponds to the decimal 2, the binary 1 corresponds to the decimal 4 and the binary 0 corresponds to the decimal 8.

To find the decimal equivilant of our binary nibble "0101" we just add up all the decimal numbers with a binary 1 under them, so...

=(8X0)+(4X1)+(2X0)+(1X1)
=4+1
=5

So 0101 in binary means 5 in decimal.

In a computer, each of these binary digits is called a bit, from *BI*nary digi*T*

Each of these bits are then put together to make a string of data, which is named like this...

4 bits = Nibble
8 bits = Byte
16 bits = Word
32 bits = Double word

We then take multiples of the byte, these are named as follows...

"0" or "1" = one bit
8 bits = 1 byte
1024 bytes = 1 kilobyte
1024 kilobytes = 1 megabyte
1024 megabytes = 1 gigabyte
1024 gigabytes = 1 terabyte
1024 terabytes = 1 petabyte
1024 petabytes = 1 exabyte
1024 exabytes = 1 zettabyte
1024 zettabytes = 1 yottabyte

and so on...

So therefore, because you have more bits in it, something that is 4 gigabytes big will be 3 gigabytes bigger than something that is 1 gigabyte big.

Also, something that is 1 terabyte big will be 1023 gigabytes bigger than something that is 1 gigabyte big.

In the same way, something that is 512 megabytes big, will be 512 megabytes smaller than something that is 1 gigabyte big.

So thus...

4 gigabytes > 1 gigabyte

Q.E.D.

So get the bigger memory stick :-)

Hope that helps. If it doesn't, please just email me :-)

Answer 3

4

Answer 4

Ive just brought a 2gb ram on ebay it hasnt come yet though

would love it if you could tell me where you got the 4gb ram from using additional details, assuming you have found one you like

anyway 4gb is bigger than 1gb

Answer 5

4GB is 4 times bigger than 1GB.

Answer 6

4 because is bigger than 1
Chuck Norris you are wrong 1Gb is made up 1024Kb
4gb= 4096KB
1gb=1024KB
Oh yeah and Paul at no point does he say that its 4Gb of RAM

Answer 7

Are you talkin of the actual physical volumetric size of the two?
there is hardly any difference, in that case.
If you are talking of the virtual digital data size, 4GB is obviously bigger

Answer 8

So when God gave out 'Brains' you thought he said 'trains' and asked for a small slow one???

And to answer its 4GB which is the largest i.e 4GB = 4,000MB compared with 1GB = 1,000MB

Your next posted question should be
'Where can I get a donor Brain'

Answer 9

4GB is bigger than 1GB memory stick they can go smaller than 1GB as well, it goes 256mb,512mb and a 1GB

Answer 10

4 GB is four times bigger than 1 GB.