Originally posted by Shaz:
Kb = Kilobits. Literally 1000 bits.
KB = Kilobytes. The most common term to describe memory, a kilobyte is 1000 bytes, or 1000 clusters of 8 bits, or 8000 bits.
Mb = Megabit. Used most comonly in reeference to communications gear, a megabit is a kilobit to a factor of 10, or 10,000 bits of information.
MB = Megabyte, or 1000 Kilobytes, or 10,000 bytes, or 80,000 bits.
Almost. In the binary world of computers and digital electronics, Kilobits/bytes and Megabits/bytes are actually rounded up to the next nearest power of 2 (because the digital world is binary). So a Kilobit/byte is actually 2 to the 10th power which is 1024. A Megabit/byte is 2 to the 20th power which is 1,048,576.
David Altekruse
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