At 07:55 PM 8/24/99 +0000, you wrote:
>I seem to recall that some people confuse things a bit by
>saying that a kiloByte is 1024 Bytes. I think that one of my
>download managers does that - you'll see a discrepency between the
>file size - in Bytes and the download progress indicator - in MB
>or kB.
>
>Bob
That's because they add up in octodecimal but we count them in decimal,
hence the discrepancy. In bits and bytes, 1024 is the nearest equivalent
to 1,000. So, 1024 bytes make a Kilobyte, and 1024 kilobytes make a
megabyte. I don't wanna do the mathing for how many bytes in a megabyte
but it's 1024x1024. That's why numbers come out in 16, 32, 64, on up to
256 and so on, that eight count thing.
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