How many KB is a MB?

This is a bit of an obvious question, I always thought 1MB was 1000KB, Except recently when I was looking on the LaCie website at a 1TB hard drive, it said it was 1TB, in brackets, (1,024GB).

So is 1MB 1000KB or 1024KB?

~Wuzzie

#299833

Please check Wikipedia for a detailed answer to your question, as the answer is a bit technical, and might be considered a matter of semantics.

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

#299836

1024. Awsome, thanks.

#299843

1MB = 1000KB

#299846

1MB = 1000KB

Wrong - it's 1024kb but people sometimes round down to 1000kb to make the math a bit easier when adding/subtracting/multiplying/etc.

#299853

just a question. how many tb is in a b? . lets do the math shall we?

#299859

That's a trick question. The answer is 0. There are 0 terabytes in a byte. But if you meant how many bytes in a terabyte, well every value increments in 1024.

So;

1024 bytes = 1kb

1024 kb = 1mb

1024 mb = 1gb

1024 gb = 1tb

We had to do this in A-Level computing when studying binary, hex, etc, memory and cpus. God i hated my Computing teacher....

#299866

and......what comes after Tera anyways? are we going to ever reach that? :slant:

#299868

After tera(10^12) comes peta(10^15), then exa(10^18), then zeta(10^21), then yotta(10^24).

#299873

type: "1 Mb in Kb" in google - this is not google...