Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: How many bytes in a megabyte?

Acadia opened this issue on Aug 31, 2010 · 25 posts


IsaoShi posted Thu, 02 September 2010 at 2:00 PM

Quote - 1kb = 1024 bytes (a lot of people usually just round to 1000)
and 1 MB = 1024 kb
so 80 MB would be 81,920 kilobytes, or 83,886,080 bytes.

Why 1024 and not 1000?
Because 1024 is a nice round number in binary arithmetic:-  0000 0100 0000 0000.
1000 is a very awkward number:-  0000 0011 1110 1000.

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