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  2. Kilobyte - Wikipedia

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    The internationally recommended unit symbol for the kilobyte is kB. [1] ... that 2 10 differs from 10 3 by less than 2.5% ... KB) is equal to one megabyte (1 MB), ...

  3. Orders of magnitude (data) - Wikipedia

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    A more accurate, but less commonly used name for 8 bits is octet. Commonly, a decimal SI metric prefix (such as kilo-) is used with bit and byte to express larger sizes (kilobit, kilobyte). But, this is usually inaccurate since these prefixes are decimal, whereas binary hardware size is usually binary.

  4. Units of information - Wikipedia

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    4 kB: About one page of text from a novel; 120 kB: The text of a typical pocket book; 1 MiB: A 1024×1024 pixel bitmap image with 256 colors (8 bpp color depth) 3 MB: A three-minute song (133 kbit/s) 650–900 MB – a CD-ROM; 1 GB: 114 minutes of uncompressed CD-quality audio at 1.4 Mbit/s; 16 GB: DDR5 DRAM laptop memory under $40 (as of early ...

  5. Data-rate units - Wikipedia

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    The ISQ symbols for the bit and byte are bit and B, respectively.In the context of data-rate units, one byte consists of 8 bits, and is synonymous with the unit octet.The abbreviation bps is often used to mean bit/s, so that when a 1 Mbps connection is advertised, it usually means that the maximum achievable bandwidth is 1 Mbit/s (one million bits per second), which is 0.125 MB/s (megabyte per ...

  6. Byte - Wikipedia

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    An alternative system of nomenclature for the same units (referred to here as the customary convention), in which 1 kilobyte (KB) is equal to 1,024 bytes, [38] [39] [40] 1 megabyte (MB) is equal to 1024 2 bytes and 1 gigabyte (GB) is equal to 1024 3 bytes is mentioned by a 1990s JEDEC standard. Only the first three multiples (up to GB) are ...

  7. Binary prefix - Wikipedia

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    On the other hand, a hard disk whose capacity is specified by the manufacturer as "10 gigabytes" or "10 GB", holds 10 × 10 9 = 10 000 000 000 bytes, or a little more than that, but less than 10 × 2 30 = 10 737 418 240 and a file whose size is listed as "2.3 GB" may have a size closer to 2.3 × 2 30 ≈ 2 470 000 000 or to 2.3 × 10 9 = 2 300 ...

  8. Data compression - Wikipedia

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    For example, one 640 MB compact disc (CD) holds approximately one hour of uncompressed high fidelity music, less than 2 hours of music compressed losslessly, or 7 hours of music compressed in the MP3 format at a medium bit rate. A digital sound recorder can typically store around 200 hours of clearly intelligible speech in 640 MB. [48]

  9. List of interface bit rates - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of interface bit rates, is a measure of information transfer rates, or digital bandwidth capacity, at which digital interfaces in a computer or network can communicate over various kinds of buses and channels.