Acadia opened this issue on Oct 14, 2007 · 26 posts
geep posted Sun, 14 October 2007 at 4:41 PM
Attached Link: http://www.physlink.com/reference/DecimalPrefixes.cfm
The Power Of Two (2)A computer is based on the binary number system which only has two values, 0 and 1.
Memory is based on the power of 2 and goes like this
Just double (multiply by 2) the value to get the next higher amount
2 x 2 = 4
4 x 2 = 8
8 x 2 = 16
16 x 2 = 32
32 x 2 = 64
64 x 2 = 128
128 x 2 = 256
256 x 2 = 512
512 x 2 = 1,024 actual but also just called 1K Bytes
=== KiloBytes - KB === K = 1,000 (kilo = thousand)
1,024 actual but referred to as 1K Bytes or 1KB
2,048 - 2KB
4,096 - 4 KB
8,192 - 8 KB
16,384 - 16 KB
32,768 - 32 KB
65,536 - 64 KB (this is actually 65,536 Bytes or 65.536 KB)
131,072 - 128 KB
262,144 - 256 KB
524,288 - 512 KB or 0.5 MB (MegaBytes)
=== MegaBytes - MB === M = 1,000,000 (mega = million)
1,048,576 - 1MB or 1,000 KB
2,097,152 - 2 MB
4,194,304 - 4 MB
8,388,608 - 8 MB
16,777,216 - 16 MB
33,554,432 - 32 MB
67,108,864 - 64 MB
134,217,728 - 128 MB
268,435,456 - 256 MB
536,870,912 - 512 MB or 0.5 GB (GigaBytes)
=== GigaBytes - GB === G = 1,000,000,000 (giga = billion)
1,073,741,824 - 1 GB
2,147,483,648 - 2 GB
4,294,967,296 - 4 GB
8,589,934,592 - 8 GB
17,179,869,184 - 16 GB
34,359,738,368 - 32 GB
68,719,476,736 - 64 GB
137,438,953,472 - 128 GB
274,877,906,944 - 256 GB
549,755,813,888 - 512 GB or 0.5 TeraBytes
=== TeraBytes === T = 1,000,000,000,000 (tera = trillion or a million million)
1,099,511,627,776 - 1 TB
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Oh, sorry, guess I got carried away ............. didn't I? ... ;=]
Q. *"How many Bytes is 600,000 Kilobytes?"
A. 600,000,000 Bytes ....... because kilo means thousand
or ... 600 Megabytes ... or ... 0.6 GigaBytes or ...
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edited 10/5/2019