Bit Byte Kilobyte Megabyte. How much is 1 bytekilobytemegabyte gigabyte etc? A bit is an acronym shouldn’t it be written in all uppercase? How do quantum computers use a bit? Related information What comes before a bit? A bit is the smallest unit of computer measurement which means nothing comes before a bit What comes after a bit? A nibble comes after a bit.
Bit A bit is a value of either a 1 or 0 (on or off) Nibble A nibble is 4 bits Byte Today a byte is 8 bits 1 character eg “a” is one byteKilobyte (KB) A kilobyte is 1024 bytes 2 or 3 paragraphs of text Megabyte (MB) A megabyte is 1048576 bytes or 1024 kilobytes 873 pages of plain text (1200 characters) 4 books (200 pages.
How much is 1 byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, etc.?
The reason there are 1024 bytes in a kilobyte and 1024 Kb in a Megabyte and 1024 Mb in a Gigabyte is because long ago when they first invented computers and they needed a way to address each byte in memory they used 12 bits 1111 1111 1111 to hold the address number of each byte in memory So 000000000001 is byte 1 and 111111111111 is byte 1024 To only.
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