Re: [Dev-C++] Bits Bytes megabytes help needed

[Zodiaq <zo...@ac...>]

Hello Eric and all Dev-C++ users,

Tuesday, September 2, 2003, 9:03:03 PM, Eric wrote as follows:

EC> Bit bytes megabytes

EC> Can you tell me how to convert theses by hand?

First, and very important: if we are talking about binary (computer
based) system we do not use k, M or G... these are used in physics,
not in computers... only hard driver makers use these to cheat (yeah,
I call it cheating!) customers... with computers use:
2^10 - Ki - kilo binary... so we have KiB (kibibytes) and Kib
(kibibytes)
2^20 - Mi - mega binary...
2^30 - Gi - giga binary...

EC>  How many kilobytes in a megabyte?

huh, lol...
there are 1024 Bytes in KiB
and there 1024 KiB in MiB
but
there are 8192 bits in KiB...

EC> 1024 how would get this answer

EC> 20 to the power of 2?  If this is right how do you work it out 
EC> or is there another way.

EC> I know there is 8 bits to a byte

EC> Can anyone help without using a calulator

it is not hard... just remember power of 2 till 1048576 bacuse you
will need it in many ocasions in study...
so if anyone asks you: 2^8 ? you say without a hesitation 256... and
so on - have phun...

and more about Kis and others:
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

one off-topic:
I have a good connection to internet, 64KiB/s is more than enough for
me... but when I see what I waste of place these mails make it makes
me so angry! Have you people looked at space they take?? For example
mail I'm responding to is over 4KiB size, but text inside is only 500
bytes! remaing 3.5 is trash!!! trash! trash! lots of "received from",
some anti-spam feature info from SF and then some list infos - which
NOBODY looks at as recently few people shown us trying unsubscribe by
sending info to list! trash... I'm programming in WinAPI using mingw
to get smallest possible programs, and when I see this waste of space
in these mails... ehhh... where is my calming-down pill!?

-- 
regards, Zodiaq