I am trying to understand how to convert bits larger types of bits, and bytes to larger types of bytes and vice versa but I've come across numerous methods and they conflict.
Is the following correct?
"To convert from bits to kilobits and beyond you are dividing by 1000^n. to convert from larger bits, for instance kilobyte you are multiplying by 1000^n.
In contrast when you are converting bytes upwards you are dividing by 1024^n and when you are converting down to bytes your multiplying by 1024^n.
finally to convert between bytes to bits your dividing by 8 and vice versa your multiplying?"
Is the above correct or should you just use one convention. i.e. either 1000 or 1024?
Kilo = 1,000. Mega = 10^6. Giga = 10^9. Tera = 10^12. In CS, we maybe use KiBi = 1,024, MeBi = 1,024^2, GiBi = 1,024^3 etc.
For RAM sizes, usually base-1024 numbers are used, often with the wrong unit name. Practically everything else uses base-1,000 numbers.