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Re: bytes to megabytes
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Re: bytes to megabytes


  • Subject: Re: bytes to megabytes
  • From: Ian King <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 23:02:53 +0100

> Okay. I understand why they are dividing and then using the
> div/mod operators. What I don't get is why they used 1048 then
> 1000? Shouldn't it be 1024 and 1024? I really don't get what they
> did here...
>
> Ken
Kb or Kilobyte = 1024 Bytes, or roughly a thousand

Mb or Megabyte = 1024 x1024, or 1048,576 Bytes, or roughly a million
1048 x 1,000

err, close enough, anyway!

Hope That Helps, &B-) Ian
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