Convert gigabyte to kilobyte

What is gigabyte?

Before describing Gigabytes and their meaning, we have to move through the binary system and its special metrics.

Thus, a bit is the smallest option with only two meanings, like 0 or 1. It is used as a base for other options. Eight bites comprise one byte when they go one after another. Such a chain encodes some character.

The next step is 210 kilobytes. It corresponds to 1024 bytes. This is because of the special features of this system. Then, goes a megabyte or 1024 kilo- or 1048576 bytes.

A Gigabyte, in turn, is 1024 mega or 1048576 kilo units. In bytes, the number will be even longer, namely 1073741824, more than a billion. It is clear that such large amounts of information are simply inconvenient to record in small units.

This metric is referred to as GB or GByte. For example, a video can weigh several GB.

What is kilobyte?

A Kilobyte is a metric based on bytes that is utilized to describe the information. It means 210 that corresponds to 1024 bytes and is referred to as kB. Why is the calculation done like this?

The main calculations are carried out in the binary system, where each bit (or byte, depending on the computer) is its digit. An increase in the amount of information means an increase in bit depth: 1, 10, 100 in the binary system and so on.

All these numbers are powers of two. 100 is 4, 1000 is 8, and so on. Therefore, the calculation is carried out in powers of two and each power corresponds to a certain category.

Of course, in the case of kilobytes, we are talking about bytes, not bits, but the rule about powers of two still stays applicable. Thus, although the prefix kilo means thousand, in the context of the amount of information it is 1024.