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Sun Aug-20-06 04:26 AM
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DU just reached a megabyte! |
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Hooray, 1024! Hooray beer!
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Sun Aug-20-06 04:32 AM
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1. I don't know what the fuck you are talking about.. |
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Edited on Sun Aug-20-06 04:35 AM by Omphaloskepsis
I will have a smoke and throw a empty beer can at my sister. A milestone is a milestone.
edit -- 1024 nerdy RAM numbers.
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Sun Aug-20-06 04:45 AM
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Sun Aug-20-06 05:09 PM
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21. I am going to have my smoke now |
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Throw an empty beer can at your sister for me too.
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Edited on Sun Aug-20-06 04:35 AM by Skip Intro
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Sun Aug-20-06 04:47 AM
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Sun Aug-20-06 06:03 AM
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5. ummm, 1024 is not a megabyte |
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Sun Aug-20-06 06:06 AM
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6. Wow, sharp! (sort of). |
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Sun Aug-20-06 01:39 PM
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Edited on Sun Aug-20-06 01:46 PM by hootinholler
1000 is a kilo. 1024 is a convienient representation of 1000, base 2 or 10000000000 base 2, which is the overflow condition from 1111111111 base 2, an engineering convenience if you will. It's comonly called a binary K.
Nothing to do with bytes or bits.
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Sun Aug-20-06 08:21 PM
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26. Ummmm 1024 kilobits is a megabyte. |
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Sun Aug-20-06 07:38 AM
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7. Correction, I believe that would be one kilobyte.... |
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....kilo = 1,000 ....mega = 1,000,000
Now, someone please explain what a byte is and please don't say 8 bits or 16 nibbles. :hippie:
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Sun Aug-20-06 11:02 AM
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11. Now you've gone and done it. |
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Sun Aug-20-06 09:32 AM
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8. The binary prefixes used in computing |
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kilo = 210 = 1,024 mega = 220 = 1,048,576
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Sun Aug-20-06 01:18 PM
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12. Thank you and the byte would be 2 (3) = 8 bits so what is a nibble |
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Sun Aug-20-06 01:42 PM
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Edited on Sun Aug-20-06 01:44 PM by hootinholler
Edit to say a byte is an amount of memory that can hold values up to 2^8.
Maximum count is 256 base 10.
A nibble is 2^4 or 4 bits each bit is one place base two.
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Sun Aug-20-06 02:00 PM
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15. the 2 (hat) 8 symbol equals what? That is not the same as the |
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exponential value stated earlier then, correct? Now to really make myself dizzy, what's a word in digital computing? (When the student is ready the teacher will appear)
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Sun Aug-20-06 02:32 PM
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16. It's ^ simply a shorthand to enter exponentiation |
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So that should be read as 2 to the 8th.
A word is an arbitrary length, based on the width of the part of the processor that holds numbers while you 'arithmetic' them, it also usually indicates how much memory can be addressed before memory banking or swapping schemes come into play. Usually words are a multiples of 8, but, I've worked on machines with a 35 bit word size.
In intel architecture, word sizes started at 8 bits, and now are 64 bits on the most modern chips. (Intel may have 128 bit word processors, I don't keep up with them closely)
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Sun Aug-20-06 05:04 PM
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19. Please bear with me, so a byte becomes 2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2=256bits |
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...is that correct? The nibble then is 2x2x2x2= 16bits. Ah ha. It's scary to think Diebold could have digital illiterate people like me maintaining and even programming the electronic voting machines. Yikes! Thanks for the digital lesson.
Oh, I don't seem to have the ^ key on my keyboard....oh wait a minute it's above the 6 like so ^. Does that mean if I enter a 2^8 in a program (i.e Excel) it will perform the exponential function correctly? Guess I should try it..... oh wow, it works!!!!:bounce:
I owe you a root beer Hoot :toast:
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Sun Aug-20-06 06:04 PM
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23. Not quite, it's base 2 arithmetic. |
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One bit can be a one or a zero, and can hold 2 values. A byte is 8 bits hooked up together and can hold 256 unique values, 0 through 255 inclusive.
Consider a byte set to: 00000000 Then if we keep adding 1 to the value it becomes 00000001, 00000010, 00000011, ... 11111110, 11111101, 11111110, 11111111 Which are decimal (base 10) values: 0,1,2,3,...,252,253,254,255
256 bits can hold a fairly big number, 2^256 = 33554432
So, 2^(number of bits) is how many values other than 0 a specific memory width can hold.
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Sun Aug-20-06 06:10 PM
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24. Ahaaa, I understand, but now I am on the cusp of IOL.... |
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...information over-load. I need an incubation period for it all to hatch and bloom. Thanks for all of your help.
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Sun Aug-20-06 08:20 PM
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25. Well if you really have it you'll spot my error in the above post. |
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Edited on Sun Aug-20-06 08:20 PM by hootinholler
It's really simple think digits. Base 10 how many digits does it take to be able to express 1000 values? 3: 000-999 In base 2, it takes 8 digits to express 256 values.
Next lesson is octal (base 8).
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Sun Aug-20-06 03:03 PM
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17. A computer's word length |
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depends of the architecture (i.e. hardware) of the computer and represents the size in bits of data that is manipulated as a group. For instance in x86-based computers it is generally the size of the CPU's registers 16, 32, or 64 bits.
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Sun Aug-20-06 05:08 PM
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20. Great people here on DU, I think there are enough computer |
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...literate folks here that if we all took one voting precinct in the country this November, the electronic voting machine cheating could be at least nuetralized if not not even overturned. Thanks Crabby.
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Sun Aug-20-06 03:07 PM
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18. Will somebody put this kilobyte post in the lounge? |
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megabyte = one thousand twenty four kilobytes.
kilobyte = one thousand twenty four bytes.
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