- Computers communicate using a signal of 0 and 1
Here are some of the computer measurements that they use to communicate with devices - bits (b) – 0’s and 1’s lowest form of measurement off or on.
- Nibble – 4 bits or half a Byte.
- Byte (B) – is one Character consisting of 8 binary digits.
- Kilobyte or KB – equals 1024 Characters or consisting of a half page of text.
- Megabyte or MB – equals 1,048,576 Characters or one typical novel.
- Gigabyte or GB – equals 1,073,741,824 characters or 1 thousand novels.
- Terabyte or TB – equals 1,099,511,627,776 characters or entire library.
- Note computers use binary (base two) math, instead of a decimal (base ten) system.
Note computers use binary (base two) math, instead of a decimal (base ten) system
Binary Decimal Hexadecimal
0000 0 0
0001 1 1
0010 2 2
0011 3 3
0100 4 4
0101 5 5
0110 6 6
0111 7 7
1000 8 8
1001 9 9
1010 10 A
1011 11 B
1100 12 C
1101 13 D
1110 14 E
1111 15 F
