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Jul 21, 1999, 3:22pm

Uh, 1 kilobyte = 1,024 bytes, Horizons. Kilo = one thousand in the metric system, but in computer storage terms it means 1,024. You seem to lose your train of thought often...slow down and think what you're writing about.

8 bits = 1 byte (2^3)
1 kilobyte = 1,024 bytes (2^10)
1 megabyte = 1,024 x 1,024 = 1,048,576 bytes (or 1 million bytes or 2^20)
1 gigabyte = 1,024 x 1,024 x 1,024 = 1,073,741,824 bytes (or 1 billion megabytes or 2^30)

And this is just bytes. Converting bits to bytes is even more confusing. ;)

bits per second (bps)
kilobit
megabit
gigabit
etc...

[View Quote] > 32-Bit values can be used in 16-bit adresses but they aren't processed as
> effenciently I think because of the way the bits are alocated into bytes,
> Remember 8 bits to 1 byte. 100 Bytes to 1 Kilobyte, but 1024 Kilobytes to 1
> Megabyte. I don't know why this makes any sense any more because I lost my
> train of thought.
>
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