+John Teacake MVC Posted January 12, 2004 MVC Share Posted January 12, 2004 Is this the right way of converting 0.5gbits to bits. 0.5 gbits = 500mbits x 1024 = 512,000 kbits x 1024 = 524,288,000 bytes x 8 = 4194304000 bits ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uziq Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 No, that's not the right way. for one thing, you went from .5 gig to 4.2 gig, and that's just not possible (unless you're switching from one type of unit to another). to me, 0.5Gbit equals exactly 500,000,000 bits. but, 0.5GByte could be either 500,000,000 bytes, or 524,288,000 bytes, depending on the circumstance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+John Teacake MVC Posted January 12, 2004 Author MVC Share Posted January 12, 2004 please can you explain more . . . thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amoeba Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 I'm not going to read what you wrote in hopes of getting a clean crack at this. Converting 0.5 Gb to bits. 1 Gb = 1024 Mb = 1048576 Kb = 1073741824b 1073741824 / 2 = 536870912 bits The reasoning for my conversions is due to data storage being represented in base 2 (binary) and not base 10 (decimal). One thousand (killa) in decimal is 10^3 and 2^10 in binary (1024). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted January 12, 2004 Veteran Share Posted January 12, 2004 Use Google... Calculator Function in Google Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OPaul Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 Giga is 10^9, so .5 Gigabits = .5 x 10^9 = 500,000,000. You don't need to convert to bytes or do anything with bytes. Your converting from bits to bits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted January 12, 2004 Veteran Share Posted January 12, 2004 Giga is 10^9, so .5 Gigabits = .5 x 10^9 = 500,000,000. You don't need to convert to bytes or do anything with bytes. Your converting from bits to bits. Normally, for us, yeah... But in computers, a kilo != 1000. a kilo = 1024. And a =giga = 1024 kilos. Only hard drive manufacturers use kilo = 1000 in the computer world (to make their drives seem 'bigger'). You think that maybe they have some 'size' issues? :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amoeba Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 Giga is 10^9, so .5 Gigabits = .5 x 10^9 = 500,000,000. You don't need to convert to bytes or do anything with bytes. Your converting from bits to bits. Thanks for that, OPaul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xer34 Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 guess some people just have trouble determining the difference between a byte and a bit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OPaul Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 Thanks for that, OPaul. Well actually markjensen was right, in terms of computers it's different. Anyone know the history behind that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banjo Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 (edited) Well actually markjensen was right, in terms of computers it's different. Anyone know the history behind that? Just the way binary works. Everything is double the last number... it's kind of hard to explain... but um... yeah... I guess 1024 was close to 1000 so they just called it kilo. Edit: meant 1000 not 100 :pinch: Edited January 13, 2004 by Banjo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OPaul Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 Oh oh, I gotcha, my brain was off then or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amoeba Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 guess some people just have trouble determining the difference between a byte and a bit That wasn't our problem here... :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amoeba Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 Well actually markjensen was right, in terms of computers it's different. Anyone know the history behind that? I was making fun of you. Guess I didn't do it too well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OPaul Posted January 14, 2004 Share Posted January 14, 2004 Why were you making fun of me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uziq Posted January 14, 2004 Share Posted January 14, 2004 If we're just talking about single bits, then there's absolutely no reason to convert them to bytes or multiply them by 8 or 1024 or anything else. .5 Gb = 500,000,000 bits There is no other answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insurektion Posted January 14, 2004 Share Posted January 14, 2004 Computers work on 2^x powers when they started out 1024 kbytes was only a diff of 24 no big deal so they thought may as well make it base 10 Wrong. Now a 160 Gb hard drive = 149 REAL GB thats a diff of a REAL 11 GB big difference. As well: 1 Gb = 1024 Mb = 1048576 Kb = 1073741824b 1073741824 / 2 = 536870912 bits Seems right to me amoeba Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amoeba Posted January 14, 2004 Share Posted January 14, 2004 If we're just talking about single bits, then there's absolutely no reason to convert them to bytes or multiply them by 8 or 1024 or anything else..5 Gb = 500,000,000 bits There is no other answer. You've just proved you ineptitude of the binary numbering system. The way I proved it was right. @OPaul: What else do I have to do on a Monday night? I was just being mean and cold-hearted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Japlabot Posted January 14, 2004 Share Posted January 14, 2004 (edited) Is this the right way of converting 0.5gbits to bits.0.5 gbits = 500mbits x 1024 = 512,000 kbits x 1024 = 524,288,000 bytes x 8 = 4194304000 bits ? 0.5 gbits = 512mbits x 1024 = 524,288 kbits x 1024 = 536,870,912 bits (no need for 'x 8 = 4194304000 bits' because it's already in bits) or 0.5gbits x 8 = 4 gbytes x 1024 = 4096 mbytes x 1024 = 4,194,304 kbytes x 1024 = 4294967296 bytes / 8 (convert back to bits) = 536,870,912 536,870,912 bits for sure amoeba & insurektion are also right :) edit: also: 0.5 gigabits in bits Edited January 14, 2004 by Quick Reply Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary_Player Posted January 14, 2004 Share Posted January 14, 2004 its 1024 not 1000 because thats the largest base 10 number you can represent with ...howevermany bits that is (sorry, long day, cant do math anymore, can only explain theory :s) 111111111111 (howevermany 1s) comes out to be 1024, not 1000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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