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[FAST|EASY] How many megabytes are in a gigabyte? - TrigZu - 11-18-2009 07:29 PM
For two points. If I'm not allowed to do this, feel free to delete the thread.
In reference to hard drives, how many megabytes exactly are in a gigabyte?
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RE: [FAST|EASY] How many megabytes are in a gigabyte? - Aspras - 11-19-2009 04:50 PM
1000 megabytes are in a gigabyte
RE: [FAST|EASY] How many megabytes are in a gigabyte? - Unknown - 11-19-2009 05:31 PM
1024 ?
RE: [FAST|EASY] How many megabytes are in a gigabyte? - TrigZu - 11-19-2009 06:56 PM
Aspras got it, I figured you guys would know something like this.
Check out this link Unknown.
It turns out that 1 gigabyte is not equal to 1024 megabytes. This actually changed sometime around 1999 according to the article.
RE: [FAST|EASY] How many megabytes are in a gigabyte? - Brian - 01-05-2010 10:16 PM
Well that's just odd.
RE: [FAST|EASY] How many megabytes are in a gigabyte? - Richard - 06-17-2010 07:18 PM
Urgh.
The SI need to learn that computing works in base 2. Not base 10.
Although base 10 computers would blow my mind.
RE: [FAST|EASY] How many megabytes are in a gigabyte? - Brian - 06-17-2010 07:35 PM
we use base 2 because of the nature of digital circuits. But we do convert a lot of information to hex.