Size Conversion
Size of Data:
bytes
KB
MB
GB
TB
KiB
MiB
GiB
TiB
bits
kilobit
megabit
gigabit
terabit
0
1
2
3
decimals
-predefined sizes-
1.44 MB Floppy Disk (1986)
700 MB CD
4.7 GB DVD
16 GB USB Drive
500 GB HDD
1 TB HDD
SI Decimal Prefixes (Base 10)
IEC Binary Prefixes (Base 2)
B (byte)
b (bit)
B (byte)
b (bit)
KB (kilobyte)
kbit (kilobit)
KiB (kibibyte)
Kibit (kibibit)
MB (megabyte)
Mbit (megabit)
MiB (mebibyte)
Mibit (mebibit)
GB (gigabyte)
Gbit (gigabit)
GiB (gibibyte)
Gibit (gibibit)
TB (terabyte)
Tbit (terabit)
TiB (tebibyte)
Tibit (tebibit)
v1.1 2016-11-18
General
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_rate_units
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte
Conversions
http://www.google.com/search?q=conversion
http://www.google.com/search?q=kib+to+kb
http://www.google.com/search?q=kib+to+mib
http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/calculate/
Standards
http://www.iec.ch/zone/si/si_bytes.htm
- When is a kilobyte a kibibyte? And an MB an MiB?
http://www.google.com/search?q=iec+standard+for+kibi
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/defdeny.jsp?url=....
Ideas:
(1) Display how different operating systems and applications show information.