I am curious... :huh: I am doing an analysis of my hard drive and need to know how many MB are in a GB.... :)

 

 

thank you muchly...

I am curious... :huh: I am doing an analysis of my hard drive and need to know how many MB are in a GB.... :)

 

 

thank you muchly...

 

1024

thats an odd number..... :thinking: are you yanking my chain??

i think ian's right camille

 

informatic don't use numbers as people use to i mean we use to count on decimales (10, 20, 100..) they count on '8, 16...' so i think ian's right as i remember from my computer lessons at school... :rolleyes:

oh suuuuuuuuuuuuure take Ian's side!!!! *hmmmph* :P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I keeeeed!!! thanks Ari aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand Ian too.. :kiss:

Yep, but more often people will just say 1000 because it's a nice rounded number.

I believe Ian.. he's a robot you know.. so, he'd know.

Well I agree, I just say people'll usually say that 10gb is 10000, rather than 10240.

Get it, no?

1024= 2 to the power of 10

 

In computer programming, they use binary numbers => there are only two of them, 1 or 0. I guess that's why they use 2 to the power of 10 :D

um, so.. its 1024 right?? :embarrased: :huh:

I am curious... :huh: I am doing an analysis of my hard drive and need to know how many MB are in a GB.... :)

 

 

thank you muchly...

 

1024

 

um' date=' so.. its 1024 right?? :embarrased: :huh:[/quote']

 

;)

thanks again me kind robot friend.... :kiss:

Just thought I'd confuse you a little more... There are 2 different standards that show either 1024 or 1000 megabytes in a Gigabyte. The newer standard that is starting to be more common is calling 1024 MB (or MiB) as 1 GiB... I think I havn't confused myself... I'm not sure. But yes go with 1024...

 

Go here for more info. Quite interesting...

 

Distinction between 1000 and 1024 megabytes

To clarify the distinction between decimal and binary prefixes, in 1997 the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), a standards body, proposed conformity with the International System of Units (SI) conventions (standard IEC 60027-2). New units were formed as unions of the SI prefixes with the word "binary". Thus 2^30 bytes would be called a gibibyte (GiB) while the use of gigabyte is deprecated in this context. Thus, gigabyte unambiguously follows the SI convention as 10^9 bytes. This naming convention is steadily gaining acceptance, but deprecated usage is common. The convention must be inferred from context or fine print.

zoinks! :stunned:

 

 

in case any of you were wondering.. I was trying to figure out how many GB of Interpol stuff I had on my laptop v. Coldplay or any other artist for that matter. Currently the top 3 would be either Muse, Coldplay or Interpol.. I had a feeling that Interpol would take it by a mile!! lol Seeing as I don't own many Coldplay mpgs and stuff..

 

anyhoo.. I have determined that I own about 7GB of stuff on my laptop worth of Interpol stuff... :stunned:

:shock:

Care to share some of it? :sneaky:

its LARGE stuff... but I think I will share a few goodies... here and there... :wink3: