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1 GO (gigaoctet) équivaut à 1 000 000 KO (kilooctets).

Samiette Posted messages 56 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -  
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Hello,

I just called my Virgin Mobile advisor to ask him a question:

How many kB are in 1GB and he replied "1000".
Not very sure about his answer, I'm asking you, dear internet users, for advice.

An example: Last month, I used +600,000 kB, so if I follow his reasoning, I used
600 GB? I think that's indeed impossible, even though I'm not an expert.

So, if you could help me, I need to know how many kB are in 5GB :)

Thanks, and have a good day/evening!

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  1. Caroline103
     
    Well, 1 GB = 1000 MB and 1 MB = 1000 KB
    1 GB = 1,000,000 KB
    Note: Mega is related to million
    1 KB = 1,000 bytes
    1 MB = 1,000,000 bytes
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    1. Samiette Posted messages 56 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4
       
      Merci beaucoup pour ta réponse, donc 5G = 5000 MB = 5,000,000 KB ? :)
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  2. tribun Posted messages 64900 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   12 687
     
    Hello.

    The formulas are simple!!!!!
    1 byte = 8 bits (not to be confused with byte (English) = octet (French).)
    1 kilobyte (KB) = 1,024 bytes
    1 megabyte (MB) = 1,024 KB = 1,048,576 bytes
    1 gigabyte (GB) = 1,024 MB = 1,073,741,824 bytes
    1 terabyte (TB) = 1,024 GB = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes
    1 petabyte (PB) = 1,024 TB = 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes

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    1. Toufou13190 Posted messages 11061 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   813
       
      Beware, the standards increasingly addressed to the mathematically challenged have led to a simplification imposed by disk manufacturers to artificially increase the size of their disks or because they are too stupid to work in hexadecimal; this has not been specified...............
      But here is the official international standard!

      one kibibit 1 Kibit = 2 p10 bits = 1024 bits
      one kilobit 1 kbit = 10 p3 bits = 1000 bits
      one mebibyte 1 MiB = 2 p20 B = 1,048,576 B
      one megabyte 1 MB = 10 p6 B = 1,000,000 B
      one gibibyte 1 GiB = 2 p30 B = 1,073,741,824 B
      one gigabyte 1 GB = 10 p9 B = 1,000,000,000 B

      With this rule, it's easy to see that a 500GB disk is actually only 465 GiB.
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    2. ThEBiShOp Posted messages 9307 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   1 607
       
      a "standard" that has existed since '98, which nobody has ever heard of and which is not taught in schools?

      Goodness.
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    3. Pierrecastor Posted messages 10830 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   4 216
       
      Yes, a standard that few have heard of and that is not taught enough.


      That doesn't change the fact that outside of Windows, all OSes have long recognized the difference between kilo and kibi.
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    4. ThEBiShOp Posted messages 9307 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   1 607
       
      What shocks me the most is that it is not taught in school at that time.
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    5. Pierrecastor Posted messages 10830 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   4 216
       
      I had to teach it to 2 teachers who didn't know.

      Many teachers do not keep up to date and just rely on what they themselves have been taught, including mistakes, without looking further.
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  3. Anonymous user
     
    1GB=1000MB=1000000KB
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    1. Samiette Posted messages 56 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4
       
      Thank you very much!!!
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  4. benol3 Posted messages 718 Status Member 87
     
    Hello,

    In 1GB, there are 1000 MB
    In 1MB, there are 1000 KB

    So 600,000 KB represents 600 MB or 0.6GB..

    Therefore, in 5GB, there are 5,000,000 KB.
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  6. ThEBiShOp Posted messages 9307 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   1 607
     
    In general, we round like hombourgeois did, but that's not the exact value.

    In computing, we count in powers of 2, not in powers of 10.

    1KB = 1024B
    1GB = 1024KB
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    1. Pierrecastor Posted messages 10830 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   4 216
       
      The kibibyte is counted in powers of two.

      The kilo, like all SI units, is counted in powers of 10.
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