Kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes are information measurement systems on personal computers. Users regularly come across these concepts when they install any software on their computer.
Number of kilobytes
Personal computer users are often confronted with concepts such as kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte and terabyte. First, it must be said that kilobytes, megabytes and others are systems for measuring information on a personal computer. Perhaps, when installing this or that software, everyone was faced with the fact that the program indicated the amount of space that it would take after installation. Each program or file takes up a certain amount of space on a personal computer. Novice users may have some measurement problems. It should be remembered that each concept implies a certain amount of occupied space. For example, a kilobyte stores 1,024 bytes, a megabyte stores 1,024 kilobytes, a gigabyte stores 1,048,576 bytes, and a terabyte stores 1,000,000,000 kilobytes.
Each of the terms presented is indicated in an abbreviated form (as can be seen above). This was done in order for people to better assimilate the amount of memory required, and the number itself was written in a shortened form. Each of these names indicates the amount of memory required.
Differences between kilobytes and kilobits
Some of the users of personal computers quite often confuse kilobytes with kilobits, megabytes with megabits, and so on. Perhaps, this question often arises for novice users of personal computers. It becomes especially acute when they start downloading something from the Internet and see that the speed differs from the declared one (according to users). Unfortunately, such users are deeply mistaken, because they do not see the difference between concepts.
First, it must be said that kilobytes / kilobits, megabytes / megabits are designated in different ways. For example, kilobytes / kilobits are designated KB / s and Kb / s, respectively. The same difference is in other dimensions. Naturally, the differences do not end there. It is also necessary to understand that kilobytes is the amount of downloaded information, and kilobits is the speed itself.
In order to understand how quickly this or that amount of memory will be downloaded, it is necessary to carry out the simplest calculations. For example, the Internet provider announced the speed of 512 Kb / s. In order to calculate the amount of memory, you need to divide 512 by 8 (since there are exactly 8 bits in one byte), and the result is 64 KB / s. With these simple calculations, you can get a number indicating the volume.
