How many bytes?

[katangel26]

How many bytes are there in 2 gigabytes?

[vehelpfulguy]

1 Megabyte is a million (1,000,000) bytes (roughly)

1 gigabyte is a 1000 megabytes (1,000,000,000) (roughly)

So 2 gigabytes is 2,000,000,000 bytes (roughly)

I say roughly because different people uses different measurements. See here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte

[Buenchico]

As VHG states, different people use different definitions.

'Officially' 1 gigabyte = 2^30 bytes. (That's '2 to the power of 30').

So, 2 Gb = 2^31 bytes = 2147483648 bytes.

Chris

[katangel26]

Wonderful, thank you

[fo3nix]

gigabyte is as vehelpfulguy states

the value that your computer actually uses (because it uses the binary number system, not decimal like most humans), is called the gibibyte.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte

this is at least the official definition. as buenchico suggests though, most IT people will use gigabyte to be 2^30 bytes.