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This document provides a cheat sheet for converting between units related to digital storage and transmission such as bits, bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, and terabytes. It defines the basic units and prefixes, and provides tables and graphs to assist with conversions between them. For example, it notes that 1 byte is equal to 8 bits and 1 megabyte is equal to 1 million bytes.

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Year 8 – Representations: from clay to silicon Activity handout

Lesson 5 – Large quantities


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Conversion cheat sheet

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Bits, bytes, and prefixes
Unit conversions

bit b binary digit


What
(0 or 1)
How bits
does it do I
mean? convert? ⨉8 ÷8
byte B 8 binary digits bytes

no prefix

⨉1000 ÷1000

What kilo- K thousands How kilo


does it do I
mean? convert?
⨉1000 ÷1000
mega- M millions mega
⨉1000 ÷1000
giga- G billions giga
⨉1000 ÷1000
tera- T trillions tera

Use these tables to translate: Use these graphs to convert between


units:
200 bytes = 200 groups of 8 binary digits
1Mb = 1 Megabit = 1 million binary digits 5GB = 5 ⨉ 1000MB = 5000MB
10KB = 10 Kilobytes = 10 thousand groups of 8 bits 700MB = 700 ÷ 1000GB = 0.7GB
24Kb = 24 ÷ 8 KB = 3KB

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