Units of Information

In the process of recalculation has its own nuances. It is because of them that users have difficulties. The problem is that mostly people use the decimal number system to which everyone has long been accustomed. For example, if the unit of measurement has the prefix “kilo”, then the value just needs to be multiplied by one thousand. However, information that is transmitted or stored in digital form is measured using the values ​​of the binary system. In this regard, to find out how many KB are in MB, it is not enough to perform a simple multiplication by 1000. This feature needs to be dealt with in more detail, which will be done later in the article. Continue reading →