Sep 042009
A good explanation to a common question. By Alan Norton at TechRepublic.com…
Learn why 250GB is not ever reported as 250GB | Microsoft Windows | TechRepublic.com:
How all of this madness started is a fascinating stroll down the halls of computer history. Anyone who knows anything at all about computers knows that computers use binary numbers to count. Each piece of information used by a computer has one of two values, 0 or 1, called bits – short for binary digits. Eight bits are combined to create a byte. By the very nature of memory, (Table A) more bytes are usually added by doubling them from 1 to 2, and then doubling them again nine more times until we reach 1,024 bytes.”
