How many bytes in a megabyte?

The second - there are 1024 bytes in a kilobyte, and 1024 kilobytes to a megabyte. So (1024*1024), in short.

OK, thanks. I thought the first was too neat to be right.

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And you''re writing articles? hahah
Anyway :

K = 2^10
M = 2^20
G = 2^30
T = 2^40

etc...

Not since 1998.

Since then, there have been 1000000 bytes in a megabyte and 1000 bytes in a kilobyte.

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Original post by dagarach
Not since 1998.

Since then, there have been 1000000 bytes in a megabyte and 1000 bytes in a kilobyte.

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Yup, and 1024 meters in kilometer.

Nope:
1024 metres in a kibimetre.
1000 metres in a kilometre.
1024 bytes in a kibibyte.
1000 bytes in a kilobyte.

You''re the only one who cares about what that comission said about using Ki ;p

Then how come my computer's hard drive like everyone elses computes using a base 2 to multiple powers of ten to show hard drive space. How come when an adveriser says a hard drive at "80 Gigabytes" I notice it is closer to "75 Gigabytes"? Surely it is plain to see computers don't use base 10 computation and that the OP was correct in his assertion.

EDIT: I see your point Dagarach, you are correct also, its just that no one seems to fall in line with it.

Here is an excerpt from a website glossary:

kilo- (k-) [2]
in measuring the memory of a computer, the prefix kilo- often means 2^10 = 1024 instead of 1000. By a 1998 resolution of the International Electrotechnical Commission, the new prefix kibi- (Ki-) should replace kilo- for 2^10. However, this doesn't seem to be happening. ROOFLES!!




[edited by - nervo on August 6, 2003 7:18:12 AM]

Quick Quiz! How many Meters in a Decameter?

Uhhh 2 squared?


King Henry Died Drinking Chocolate Milk..... Um, 10 then!

Don''t come crying to me when your Mars probe crashes from a 24 byte buffer overrun.

I don''t care really, but the current system can be confusing. Hard drive sizes in gigabytes are normally power-of-ten gigas (IIRC), but other storage media normally use power-of-two kilo and mega. Thus leading to the problem that you can''t fit 1024 megabytes of data into 1 gigabyte of space on a hard-drive (you can''t even get 1000 in).

The next nasty situation you can get into is when the method changes across a step. Such that a gigabyte an one system might become 1024 * 1000.

How many square furlongs in a hectare

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Thats hard and stuff. What are the conversions?

BTW Dagarach you aren''t wrong at all as it appears you support the decisions of that convention but programmers are still like alot of people in that many resist change!

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And you''re writing articles? hahah

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This is how I ensure they''re correct.

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Does anyone know what the advantage was supposed to be to using powers of 10 for K,M,G? It seems to me like whoever decided that doesn''t know how computers work...

Does anyone know what the advantage was supposed to be to using powers of 10 for K,M,G? It seems to me like whoever decided that doesn''t know how computers work...

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Does anyone know what the advantage was supposed to be to using powers of 10 for K,M,G? It seems to me like whoever decided that doesn''t know how computers work...

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It reminds me of that state that decided PI should equal 3 to make things easier.

Talk about going backwards with the PI deal. Like going backwards to when the Greeks used 3 as the value of PI.

vanillacoke: Absolutely right! The kilogram was an established standard before Babbage was a man.