FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS

WHAT IS PROGRAMMING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
One kilobyte is equal to approximately ____ memory locations.
A
1, 000
B
10, 000
C
100, 000
D
1, 000, 000
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -One kilobyte (kB) is equal to 1000 bytes (B) in the decimal/SI system of measurement.

Detailed explanation-2: -A kilobyte is approximately 1, 000 bytes (specifically, 2 to the 10th power or, in decimal form, 1, 024 bytes).

Detailed explanation-3: -Based on this, 1 kilobyte is equal to 1000 bytes. Its international symbol is kB. In computer technologies, a kilobyte is specified as 1024 (210). This is because the binary system is widely used in file management systems.

Detailed explanation-4: -Remember: Computers can only work with binary code. However computers do like the number 1024 because its binary code is 10000000000. That’s why there are 1024 Bytes in a KB, 1024 KB in a MB and so on…

Detailed explanation-5: -Megabyte or MB One megabyte is about 1 million bytes (or about 1000 kilobytes).

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