RE: Calculating a Kilobyte
- From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:17:34 -0400
You're being caught by the fact that harddrive manufacturers measure a
megabyte as 1,000,000 bytes, and your 188 gigabytes is being given to you in
terms of a gigabyte being 1,024 megabytes which are 1,024 killabytes which
are 1,024 bytes.
Take care,
Sina
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Subject: Calculating a Kilobyte
I have an external USB Hard Drive. That says ihave 188GB free. The kilobytes
are 202,016,489,472. Dividing this by 188GB, gives 1,074,555,795. Huh? I
thought 1MB was 1,024,576.
Angus MacKinnon
Infoforce Services
http://www.infoforce-services.com
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the light." - Helen Keller
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