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# 1048576 bytes - 1024 times 1024, or 220. This is the definition used in computer science and computer programming # 1000000 bytes - this is the definition used by telecommunications engineers and storage manufacturers # 1024000 bytes - 1024 times 1000. This is an (erroneous) definition used by floppy disk manufacturers |
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# 1,048,576 bytes - 1024 times 1024, or 220. This is the definition used in computer science and computer programming. This is 1024 times a Kilobyte. # 1,000,000 bytes or 106 - this is the definition used by telecommunications engineers and storage manufacturers # 1,024,000 bytes - 1024 times 1000. This is an (erroneous) definition used by floppy disk manufacturers |
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The International Electrotechnical Commission has attempted to define (2) as the kilobyte and call (1) an kibibyte -- a term which however has not caught on. |
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See integral data type. A gigabyte is 1024 times an megabyte. To clarify the meaning(1) above, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), a standards body, in 1997 proposed short unions of the International System of Units (SI) prefixes with the word "binary." Thus meaning (1) would be called a mebibyte. This naming convention has not been widely accepted. links: http://www.quinion.com/words/turnsofphrase/tp-kib1.htm http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/techbeat/tb9903.htm |
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