Re: Bit and Byte etc.

From: Jim Macklin (p51mustang[threeX12)
Date: 04/03/04 

Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 11:07:34 -0600

2 raised the power of n 2^n

2^8 =256 2^12=4096 2^16=65,536
2^32=4,294,967,296
2^64=1.8446x10^19

"TheCrewser" <NOSPAM@MYMAIL.COM> wrote in message
news:0gqt60p79bb8eodslt3iutui4f532745sr@4ax.com...
| Actually, to be correct:
|
| 1 KB = 1024 Bytes...not 1000 Bytes
| 1 MB = 1024 KB = 1,048,576 Bytes
| 1 GB = 1024 MB = 1,073,741,824 Bytes
|
| Just a thought...
|
| GLCrews,MCP
|
|
| On 2 Apr 2004 16:15:42 -0800, axipolti@yahoo.com (Michael
P Gabriel)
| wrote:
|
| >"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote
in message news:<OSwK0s3FEHA.700@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>...
| >> In news:8BCac.26212$h44.3486360@stones.force9.net,
| >> spam <spam@lapwing.f9.co.uk> typed:
| >>
| >> > Half a byte(4 bits) used to be known as a "nibble".
Not
| >> relevent, just
| >> > slightly interesting and a little funny.
| >>
| >>
| >> Often spelled "nybble."
| >>
| >> Actually, it's more a humorous name than anything else.
Rarely,
| >> if ever, can I recall someone using it in anything but
a jocula
| >> manner.
| >
| >.....................a LITTLE SIMPER....It takes 8 bits
to make up one
| >byte. One byte is what it takes to ,ake a character,
number, letter
| >or punctuation, etc. For example, the letter "R" uses up
ONE BYTE. A
| >KILOBYTE therefore would be 1000 bytes, a Megabyte would
be 1000
| >Kilobytes, a Gigabyte would be 1000 Megabytes, and aove
that I
| >believe is a Terabyte, or 1000 Gigabytes.
|

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