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Conversion Table

Name Conversions Number of Bytes Power of 2
byte 1,000,000,000 1,000,000 1,000 1 60,000 1 0
kilobyte    KB 1,000,000 1,000 1 .001 60 1024 210
megabyte  MB 1,000 1 .001 .000 001 .060 1,048,576 220
gigabyte    GB 1 .001 .000 001 .000 000 001 .000 060 1,073,741,824 230
terabyte .001 .000 001 .000 000 001 .000 000 000 001 .000 000 060 1,099,511,627,776 240

2M * 2N = 2M+N     or     26 * 210 = 216

1024 * 1024 = 210 * 210 = 220 = one megabyte





























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