Blue-Jay
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Fri Aug-12-05 06:43 PM
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Why does 19.91 KB equal 20391 bytes? |
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I just looked at the "properties" of my newly tiny little sig pic.
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Salviati
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Fri Aug-12-05 06:47 PM
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1. Because 1kb = 1024 bytes |
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Edited on Fri Aug-12-05 06:48 PM by Salviati
because 1024 = 2^10, and everything that has to do with computers has to do with binary... and they used the metric prefix K, because 1024 is about 1000
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SeanQuinn
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Fri Aug-12-05 06:48 PM
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He got it, way to go Salviati.
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Blue-Jay
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Fri Aug-12-05 06:53 PM
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4. Too bad that formula doesn't work at the bank. |
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I'd convert to kilo-dollars.
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shoelace414
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Fri Aug-12-05 06:51 PM
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if you know computers you've seen many of these numbers before.. it's 2 doubled.. doubled doubled.. etc..
2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024 2048 4096 8192 16384 32768 (don't forget the sign) 65536 (Don't forget the sign)
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Goldom
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Fri Aug-12-05 06:57 PM
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like when you've got the colors set to 32-bit, that means you're seeing 4,294,967,296 colors.
To think 256 used to be enough.
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Deja Q
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Fri Aug-12-05 07:19 PM
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6. Because, for once, Microsoft is accurate. Pity the drive makers aren't. |
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Drive makers do the 1kb = 1000 bytes trick.
Therefore that juicy "300GB hard drive" they claim is closer to 290GB, and that is BEFORE formatting to your OS's specifications!
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