Thursday, August 21, 2008

Bits and Bytes:

1) What is a Digit?
A single unit or numeral in a counting system.

2) “normal” counting numbers used in everyday life a based on what sequence of numbers?
A statistical measure of usually observed structures, typical, or represenative type

3) Where does the word bit originate from? A mathematical term

4) Binary numbers don’t use base 10. What base do they use? What digits are available in base 2? the base they use is units. The digits available are always twice as big.

5) You would write it as 4000, 300, 20, one

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7) what is a byte ? Abbreviation for binary term, a unit of storage capable of holding a single character. On almost all modern computers, a byte is equal to 8 bits. Large amounts of memory are indicated in terms of kilobytes (1,024 bytes), megabytes (1,048,576 bytes), and gigabytes (1,073,741,824 bytes).

8) How many bytes in a kilo, mega, giga and tera bytes?
kilo: 1000
Mega: 1000000
Giga: 1000
tera: 1000000000000

9)
Complete the following conversions;
1000 Mb = 1000Gb
500 Gb = 5000000Mb
5000 Kb = ?Mb

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