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> without looking it up I cannot tell you how much a megabyte is You just need to remember that you need to multiple by 1,024 instead of 1,000. So 1 kilobyte
by mytailorisrich 3y ago
> without looking it up I cannot tell you how much a megabyte is
You just need to remember that you need to multiple by 1,024 instead of 1,000.
So 1 kilobyte is 1,024 bytes, 1 megabyte is 1,024 kilobytes so 1,024x1,024 = 1,048,576 bytes, 1 gigabyte is 1,024 megabytes, etc.
- Pet_Ant 3y agoYes, but if you can't recall the number by heart it's not really that useful as a number.
- WithinReason 3y agoDepends. You know how floppy discs were advertised to be 1.44 MB? That was calculated as 1000*1024 bytes
- mytailorisrich 3y agoIt was double the previous 720 KB ones, so 1,440 KB, which they wrongly advertised as 1.44 MB, indeed. But that's irrelevant to my previous comment.