How many KBs in an MB?

So you've been posting "expert" opinions on the vid card forum without knowing this? :D

1 bit = binary digit (values 0 or 1)
1 byte = 8 bits = 8-digit binary number, 2^8 possible values in the range 0-255
1 kilobyte = 2^10 bytes = 1024 bytes
1 megabyte = 2^10 kilobytes = 1024 kilobytes = 1048576 bytes = 8388608 bits
gigabyte, terabyte, ...eeh... = same principle
 
...Depends on wether you sell hard drives for a living...

Kibibytes for teh w1n!
 
1024 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
1024 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
1024 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte
1024 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte
1024 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte
1024 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte
1024 Exabytes = 1 Zettabyte
1024 Zettabytes = 1 Yottabyte
1024 Yottabytes = 1 Brontobyte
1024 Brontobytes = ???

Can anyone go any farther (without using google)? :p

Thats as far as I could go :(

Edit: Is there even any farther to go, nothing I found on google went past Brontobytes. :(
 
Actually quite impressed it goes as far as brontobytes... (you're not kidding, right?)

1 BB (brontobyte) = 2^90 bytes = 1,237,940,039,285,380,274,899,124,224 bytes ~ 10^27 bytes.

How about a name for 1 gogool (10^100) bytes, gogoolbyte or something... not enough atoms in the universe to store that amount of information, but wtf :)

edit: or is it "googol"...?
 
Hate_Bot.... you really have been asking really simple questions lately.... are you ok?

1024k = 1MB

n00b ;)
 
" We are unsure what 1000 (or 1024) Yottabytes will be named. There are scattered reports that Brontobyte will be the next level above Yottabyte, or the Nonabyte will be the one above Yottabyte instead. I think it'll be the "Xennabyte" because if you go here:

http://www.geocities.com/jl152dogs/Big_Number_List.html and use the Find feature (Ctrl+F) and type in "Yottillion", you'll see the familiar prefixes right above it. Since Gigillion is to Gigabyte, Petillion is to Petabyte, etc..., then look down the list some more.

See the trend? There is Xennillion right below Yottillion so "Xennabyte" HAS TO be the level after Yottabyte. And as you see beyond even that, there is "Vekillion" so "Vekabyte" would be after Xennabyte. "

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Makes completely sense. And to answer your question, Acetic, if you goto http://www.geocities.com/jl152dogs/Big_Number_List.html you had an infinite list of the names.. ;)

Source:
http://www.answerbag.com/a_view.php/14029
 
jon67 said:
So you've been posting "expert" opinions on the vid card forum without knowing this? :D

1 bit = binary digit (values 0 or 1)
1 byte = 8 bits = 8-digit binary number, 2^8 possible values in the range 0-255
1 kilobyte = 2^10 bytes = 1024 bytes
1 megabyte = 2^10 kilobytes = 1024 kilobytes = 1048576 bytes = 8388608 bits
gigabyte, terabyte, ...eeh... = same principle
Click to expand...

there's also a nibble which is half of a byte (4 bits)
 
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