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| v | Why
do computers use such strange numbers??? |
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| o | These
numbers are powers of 2 |
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| ; | 210
= 1,024 call it a thousand |
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| ; | 220
= 1,048,576 call it a million |
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| ; | 230
= 1,073,741,824 call it a billion |
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| ; | 240
= 1,099,511,627,776 call it a
trillion |
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| v | When
you buy a megabyte of memory you get |
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| 48,576
bytes for free! |
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