David,
> Sorry to be a pedant but it could cost you the answer in the pub quiz .One
> kilobyte is 1012 Bytes and a gigabyte is 1012 megabytes
1024, actually. Or... it depends.
To quote Wikipedia, "the term kilobyte and symbol kB or KB have historically
been used to refer to either 1024 bytes or 1000 bytes, dependent upon context".
And in the context of storage, storage device manufacturers tend to use
the 1000 figure, because it makes their products seem larger-capacity than
what they really are.
> 10101001010 + 10110111001 is?
101100000011, of course. No harder than doing it in decimal, you just
do the carry at 2 instead of 10. Of course, if you are one of the young
whipper-snappers who had "reform mathematics" in school, it might be
harder... :)
Julf
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