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How many megs are in a gig? I'm debating on setting up a personal website, and yeah.. I just need to know.

SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte

a personal website will probably not need more than a gig

Dr Brain · Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 8:25 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Kilo = 1000
Mega = 1000 * 1000
Giga = 1000 * 1000 * 1000
Tera = 1000 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000

BUT

In computers, those thousands are really 1024.

So a gigabyte is 1024 megabytes.
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Blindmonkey21 · Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 4:05 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

He I always thought it was 1000 DOH!

CypherJF · Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 6:29 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

liars.. its 1024

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Dr Brain · Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 6:30 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Psst, cyph: I just said that.

Bak · Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 6:33 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

in memory (RAM) a gig is 2^30 bytes which is a little over 1 billion bytes while a meg is 2^20 byes which is a little over 1 million bytes. the ratio (2^30 / 2^20) is 2^10 or 1024 megabytes per gigabyte

in disk (harddrive) the companies got cheap and realized that they could advertise that they have more disk space if they defined a K as a thousand bytes(instead of 2^10), a meg as a million bytes(instead of 2^20) and a gig as a billion bytes(instead of 2^30)... so on disk a gigabyte is exactly 1,000 megabytes.

You were both right depending on the context.

Dr Brain · Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 7:38 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Hard Drive companies don't make the operating systems that report file sizes.

So, on disk, a gigabyte is exactly how large the OS thinks it is. That means 1024 megabytes.

D1st0rt · Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 8:01 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

we had to do some studying in computer science about that kind of thing, apparently some older computers used 7 bits as a byte

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Dr Brain · Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 8:33 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Octal is useful in representing 9 or 6 bit bytes.

Blindmonkey21 · Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 10:24 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Dr. Brain you are getting too into this...You know way too much...

FireFox13 · Newbie Gender: Joined: Nov 12 2003 Posts: 15 Offline

He just says that because you don't know any better, and in reality it isn't true, but like I just said you don't know any better so all this is, is a simple game of cat and mouse in which case you are the cat and brain is the mouse. The mouse lies to the cat, and the cat believes him. hahaha...ok, not funny but i felt like rambling a bunch of crap.....so um ya..

Blindmonkey21 · Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 10:28 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Steve the Impalor shall now kill you too bad he lied to you cause now you are fucked.

FireFox13 · Newbie Gender: Joined: Nov 12 2003 Posts: 15 Offline

Who the heck is this "Steve" guy?

Yea, more useless spam. Congratulations! It's a boy!

Blindmonkey21 · Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 10:36 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Steve is a rhombus.

Dr Brain · Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 11:10 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Because 8 is 2^3, octal is useful in representing any set of bits that are a multiple of 3. That's why Hex is used to represent 8 bit numbers, because 16 is 2^4 and 4 devides evenly into 8.

We want numbers whos placevalue can immediatly tell you what byte they represent, and octal placevalues fit between the byte boundaries when the byte is composed of a multiple of 3 bits.

CypherJF · Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 12:31 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Yawn, everything is everything.. computers it's all about 2's 8's 16's 0's and 1's... mwah... okay i probably made no sense

but badda bing post_count++ for me..

Bak · Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 12:49 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 6:26 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

What the heck, Bak, we're not talking about buying a stupid harddrive! We're just saying how big a gigabyte is. (And its definition doesn't change even if people with lots of money lie about it.)
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Bak · Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 4:11 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Dr Brain · Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 5:17 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

D1st0rt · Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 8:28 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

damn those tricky marketing bastards