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A megabyte is 1 KB * 1 KB = 1024 bytes * 1024 bytes = 1,048,576 bytes.
A gigabyte is 1 KB * 1 MB = 1024**3 bytes = 1,073,741,824 bytes!
Sorry to have to correct you, but it's not 1 KB * 1 KB as then you'd get Byte squared, it's 1 KB * 1 K...
Only units are part of the math. The *object* of the unit is not. If you start with oranges, you end up with oranges. They don't magically morph, well, unless you do something hinky to 'em -- you ever see that gizmo that squeezes hard cooked eggs to make them into cubes?
And 1 KB * 1 K is mixed mode math. Since the 2nd term has no object, it's considered to be base 10... 1024 * 1000 yields the wrong count. Never mix your bases.
- Dan.
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