01 October 2013

Bits and Bytes

This is for the webmasters and website owners, as well as the folk working at ISP call centres, who don't seem to know their bits from their bytes.

A bit is not a byte

I'll repeat, a bit is not a byte. A bit (b) is one binary digit (0 or 1). A byte (B) represents 8 bits. A kilobyte unit is represented as kB and there are 1024 bytes to a kilobyte. There are 1024 kilobytes to a megabyte (MB). Please get it right!
Posted by Unknown at 12:44 PM

1 comment:

  1. Unknown12 November, 2013 12:46

    The use of the term kilobyte to be 1024 bytes in some fields of computer science and information technology has been discouraged by the major standards organizations and a new prefix system was defined by the International Electrotechnical Commission, which defines the kibibyte for this binary multiple and affirms the kilobyte as 1000bytes.

    Doesn't help much, does it?

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