how many megs are in 1 gig?
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1024 x 1024 though it is industry standard to round to 1 million
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1000 mb in 1 gigs i assume.. lol\nand songs it depends on size of song.. 5mb or 10
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There's nothing wrong with your drive or computer. The discrepancy you're seeing occurs because Windows (and nearly all other operating systems too) calculates hard drive sizes in a different manner than do drive manufacturers. One uses binary and the other uses decimal. Rather than writing it all out, read this below:\n\n""Marketing" capacity versus true capacity\n\nHard drive manufacturers often use the metric definition of the prefixes "giga" and "mega", whilst nearly all operating system utilities report capacities using binary definitions for the prefixes. This is largely for historical reasons, since when storage capacities started to exceed thousands of bytes, there were no standard binary prefixes. The IEC only standardized binary prefixes in 1999, so 210 (1024) bytes was called a kilobyte because 1024 is "close enough" to the metric prefix kilo, which is defined as 103 or 1000. This trend became habit and continued to be applied to the prefixes "mega," "giga," and even "tera." Obviously the discrepancy becomes much more noticeable in reported capacities in the multiple gigabyte range, and users will often notice that the volume capacity reported by their OS is significantly less than that advertised by the hard drive manufacturer. For example, a drive advertised as 200 GB can be expected to store close to 200 x 109, or 200 billion, bytes. This uses the proper SI definition of "giga," 109 and can be considered as an approximation of a gibibyte. Since utilities provided by the operating system probably define a gigabyte as 230, or 1073741824, bytes, the reported capacity of the drive will be closer to 186.26 GB (actually, GiB), a difference of well over 7 percent. For this very reason, many utilities that report capacity have begun to use the aforementioned IEC standard binary prefixes (e.g. KiB, MiB, GiB) since their definitions are unambiguous.\n\nAnother side point is that many people mistakenly attribute the discrepancy in reported and advertised capacities to reserved space used for file system and partition accounting information. However, for large (several GiB) filesystems, this data rarely occupies more than several MiB, and therefore cannot possibly account for the apparent "loss" of tens of GBs."\n\n\nIf you want to read the whole article, see here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_drives
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Angel, A GB is not 1000MB, it is 1024MB\n\n5 CDs @ 700MB each is 3.40 GB
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one 0 or one 1 is called a bit.\n8 bits = 1 byte.\n1024 bytes = 1 kilo byte\n1024 KB = 1 mega byte\n1024 MB = 1 giga byte\n1024 GB = 1 Tera byte (IIRC) \n\nEvery thing is absolutely true but we cant treat or measure even by 1000 bytes = 1 kilo byte or some thing like that as said by Mr. Charles W. 1024 has its significance. These are the standard measurement units. But as far as I know we can't treat even by using 1000 instead of 1024.\n\nLet me get into the details for making it more clear. The basic thing that we know that data is transmitted or stored in the form of 0's or 1's. Many of them said it as 2^10 but why only 2 raised to some power, why not 3 or 4 or 5? This is cos we use only 2 bits that is 0's and 1's. So we represent the series of data that is transmitted or the amount of data been stored only to the power of 2 not any other number and hence we use as many said 2^10 that sums up to 1024. So I think this is why ever time we say 1024 bytes and we need to say it as it is if we need to represent the amount of data been transferred or stored.
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1 megabyte (MB) = 1024 kilobytes (KB)\n1 gigabyte (GB) = 1024 megabytes (MB)
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1 bit (b)\n\n1 byte (B) = 8 bits\n\n1 Kilobyte (K / KB) = 2^10 bytes = 1,024 bytes \n\n1 Megabyte (M / MB) = 2^20 bytes = 1,048,576 bytes \n\n1 Gigabyte (G / GB) = 2^30 bytes = 1,073,741,824 bytes \n\n1 Terabyte (T / TB) = 2^40 bytes = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes\n\n1 Petabyte (P / PB) = 2^50 bytes = 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes\n\n1 Exabyte (E / EB) = 2^60 bytes = 1,152,921,504,606.846,976 bytes\n\n1 Zettabyte (Z / ZB) = 2^70 bytes = 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 bytes\n\n1 Yottabyte (Y / YB) = 2^80 bytes = 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 bytes
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1024 is the magic number\n1024 mb = 1 gb\n1024 gb = tb \netcc
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15728640KB's are in 15GB's. The equation above is incorrect.
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As above,\nMB = Megabyte\nMbit = Megabit\n1 Byte = 8 Bits\nSo, 1 MB = 8 Mbit\n\nHowever 1 MB = 1024 kilobytes, or 1,048,576 bytes not 1000 bytes\nand 1Mbit = 1024 kilobits, or 1,048,576 bits, not 1000 bits
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1GB = 1024 MB\n1MB = 1024 KB\n\nso advertised hard drive capacity is not the true capacity due to this factor.\n\nWhen you format the HDD, it's partition (FAT/NTFS) strucure itself requires a space.\n\n\nAlso, when files are stored & creates in hard drive, it's saved as "clusters" which usually takes more space than actual size.\n\nThink of putting books in a box.  The books will not completely fill the box, leaving some spaces & gaps.  Same with harddrive.
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Thats the reverse. 1024KB makes 1MB.
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No, not millibytes, megabytes!\n\nIn computer science, a byte is the smallest storage size and is 8 bits, 8 ones and zeroes.\n\n1 byte (B) = 8 bits (b)\n1 kilobyte (kB) = 1024 byte = 2^10 byte\n1 Megabyte (MB) = 1024 kB = 1048576 B = 2^20 byte\n1 Gigabyte (GB) = 1024 MB = 1073741824 B = 2^30 byte\n1 Terabyte (TB) = 1024 GB = 1099511627776 B = 2^40 byte\n\nin common mathematics, it is just a little bit different (but almost the same):\n\nnano = 0.00,000,000,1 = 10^-9\nmicro = 0.00,000,1 = 10^-6\nmilli = 0.00,1 = 10^-3\ncenti = 0.01 = 10^-2\ndeci = 0.1 = 10^-2\nkilo = 1,000 = 10^3\nMega = 1,000,000 = 10^6\nGiga = 1,000,000,000 = 10^9\nTerra = 1,000,000,000,000 = 10^12
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1Gb = 1,024Mb.\n1Mb = 1,024kb.
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1MB is 1000 kilobytes in theory (SI prefix)\nHowever, 1MiB (binary megabyte, not SI prefix), is 1024KiB.\n\nIn more simple terms: byte = 8 bits, kilobyte = 1024bytes, megabyte = 1024kb and so on.
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Just slightly less than one Gigabyte, as an actual Gigabyte is 1,024,000,000 bits because bits are based on binary mathematics, or "base 2" math.
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K - 1000   thousand\nM - 1,000,000  million\nB - 1,000,000,000 billion\n\nSo there are 1000 meg in a gig.