Why 1 GB is not equal to 1000 or 1050 MB but 1024 MB?

 1 GB equals 1000 MB. That is the truth.

Where GB means gigabyte. MB is a megabyte.Wait, wait, don't come to kill. Let me tell you a little.

Well, have you noticed somewhere that GiB or MiB is given as digital storage size. You either read gigabytes or megabytes. In fact, it is Gibbyte and Mbibyte, gradually.

This time the relationship between these two signs.

1 GiB = 1024 MiB.

Similarly, 1 MiB = 1024 KiB. KiB is the KiB byte.

Now if you think why 1 GiB = 1024 MiB, then it can be said that it is a calculation formality.

Since 10³ = 1000 is captured as "kilo" in the metric system, 1000 bytes (B) are captured as 1 kilobyte (KB) to match it.

That is 1KB = 1000 Byte

1 MB = 1000 KB = 1000000 Byte

But since the computer understands only 2 digits, 0 and 1, all the values ​​are expressed as the power of 2. KiB or MiB or GiB has been given separately by the International Electrotechnical Commission - without confusing this calculation with the metric method.

That is 1KiB = 1024 B

1 MiB = 1024 KiB = 1024 * 1024 B = 1048576 Byte

Let's see another example:

A computer but does not understand language like humans. The language he understands is called binary code. There are only two letters 1 and 0 in this language. All the work of the computer is done by arranging these two letters in different ways. But the reason for such bizarre language?

The computer is powered by electricity, so if there is electricity in a circuit on its chip, that is, if it is on, then it is called 1, and if it has no electrical connection, that is, if the circuit is off, then it is called 0. These 1 and 0 are created through different logic gates and the computer code is executed in a mixture of all these gates.

Then a bit that is the smallest unit of memory in a computer will have 1 or 0 in it. So its size will be 2. After that, as we increase the number of memory, it will increase in proportion to this 2nd.

2² = 4

2³ = 8

2⁴ = 16

2⁵ = 32

2⁶ = 64

2⁷ = 128

2⁸ = 256

2⁹ = 512

2¹⁰ = 1024

We see 32 GB, 64 GB or 128 GB storage in this mobile. And in the metric system, at a multiple of 10 (I don't know its Bengali) everything increases to 210 MB = 1024 MB = 1 GB.

So simply because of the predominance of binary code in computers, we see 1024 MB, not 1000 MB or 1050 MB.