mb and kb

[Guest]

kind of a duh! question, but which is bigger mb or kb. I am editing some photos and i don't know which format is the most compact format to save them as jpeg, bitmap, tif. i did notice the file sizes vary from mb to kb but i do not know which is smaller?????

 

[Jurren Bouman]

kind of a duh! question, but which is bigger mb or kb. I am editing some

photos and i don't know which format is the most compact format to save them
as jpeg, bitmap, tif. i did notice the file sizes vary from mb to kb but i
do not know which is smaller?????


Definition: (MB, colloquially "meg") 2^20 = 1,048,576 bytes = 1024
kilobytes.

 

[Guest]

so does that mean that the mb is bigger than the kb, i guess i don't quite understand??

 

[Ralf Baumhoefer]

can't you read, dork ??

so does that mean that the mb is bigger than the kb, i guess i don't quite

understand??

 

[Pemo]

kind of a duh! question, but which is bigger mb or kb. I am editing some

photos and i don't know which format is the most compact format to save them
as jpeg, bitmap, tif. i did notice the file sizes vary from mb to kb but i
do not know which is smaller?????

In simple terms, "kb" (kilo) is about a thousand; "mb" (mega) is about a
million; so there are about 1000 kb to one mb.

(Actually the figure is 1024, but we won't quibble)

Pemo

 

[Guest]

Kb is less than Mb , about 1000 times

So to remember just follow the alphabet sequence,..J, K,.L, M..wher the lower comes first...
Regards

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Billie,

Think in metric prefixes (using a hard drive makers way of looking at it to
make it simple):

byte 1 byte
kilobyte 1,000 bytes
megabyte 1,000,000 bytes
gigabyte 1,000,000,000 bytes

In Windows, it's actually a bit more complex, as a kb=1024bytes, and it
progresses from there. But the above should work as far as understanding
what the prefixes mean.

If you wish to edit photos, then the more information the better. The larger
file size is .bmp, and this gives you more to work with. Other image file
types that occupy less space have less information to work with.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

kind of a duh! question, but which is bigger mb or kb. I am editing some

photos and i don't know which format is the most compact format to save them
as jpeg, bitmap, tif. i did notice the file sizes vary from mb to kb but i
do not know which is smaller?????

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

So to remember just follow the alphabet sequence,..J, K,.L, M..wher the
lower comes first...

Which works until you get to giga, tera, then peta.....not too useful a
method now with the advent of bigger, faster systems.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[Pemo]

Think in metric prefixes (using a hard drive makers way of looking at it to
make it simple):

byte 1 byte
kilobyte 1,000 bytes
megabyte 1,000,000 bytes
gigabyte 1,000,000,000 bytes

In Windows, it's actually a bit more complex, as a kb=1024bytes, and it
progresses from there. But the above should work as far as understanding
what the prefixes mean.

Not just Windows, but in all digital electronics applications. There is,
however, a caveat: the international standard S.I. system (which even the US
subscribes to, although you wouldn't know it, the way they persist with
those idiotic Imperial inch & mile thingies) defines kilo prefix
(abbreviation k) as 10^3 (1000); in digital electronics, a kilobyte
(abbreviation KB) is 2^10 (1024); thus a digital MB is 1024 KB or 1048576
bytes. This is the quibble I eschewed in my previous reply to the OP.

Pemo

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Yes, I really wish the US would go to SI standards, almost as much as I wish
hard drive makers would use the same standard for sizing their drives as do
the pc's they are run on, but I digress.....

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

kind of a duh! question, but which is bigger mb or kb. I am

editing some photos and i don't know which format is the most
compact format to save them as jpeg, bitmap, tif. i did notice
the file sizes vary from mb to kb but i do not know which is
smaller?????


One kilobyte (kb) is 1024 bytes.

One megabyte (mb) is 1024 kb, or 1,048,576

So a mb is bigger.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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Kb is less than Mb , about 1000 times

So to remember just follow the alphabet sequence,..J, K,.L,

M..wher the lower comes first...



Not a great mnemonic device, since there are many more prefixes
than k and m, and your alphabetic rule fails the very next step
up.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

1 Kb = 1024 bytes
1 Mb = 1024 Kb = 1,048,576 bytes
1 Gb = 1024 Mb = 1,073,741,824 bytes


Bruce Chambers

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kind of a duh! question, but which is bigger mb or kb. I am editing

some photos and i don't know which format is the most compact format
to save them as jpeg, bitmap, tif. i did notice the file sizes vary
from mb to kb but i do not know which is smaller?????

 

[Wesley Vogel]

billie;
MB is bigger thab KB.

1 Bit = 1 Bit
Byte = 8 Bit
Kilobyte (KB)= 8,192 Bit
Megabyte (MB) = 8,388,608 Bit

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

billie;
MB is bigger thab KB.

1 Bit = 1 Bit
Byte = 8 Bit
Kilobyte (KB)= 8,192 Bit
Megabyte (MB) = 8,388,608 Bit

In my view, it very much confuses the issue. End users almost
never work with bits, and hardly need to know anything about
them. Defining a kilopbyte or megabyte as some number of bits is
just confusing. The byte, containing a single letter, number, or
special character, is the basic unit they are concerned with.

1kb is 1024 bytes
1mb is 1024kb, or 1,048,576 bytes.

Bits are much better left out of the picture entirely.

 

[NobodyMan]

In my view, it very much confuses the issue. End users almost
never work with bits, and hardly need to know anything about
them. Defining a kilopbyte or megabyte as some number of bits is
just confusing. The byte, containing a single letter, number, or
special character, is the basic unit they are concerned with.

Ken:

What's a kilopbyte?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Ken:

What's a kilopbyte?

It's a well-knopwn typopgraphical erropr. I'm surprised you
weren't able to recopgnize it.

 

[Tom Lake]

1kb is 1024 bytes

1mb is 1024kb, or 1,048,576 bytes.

Bits are much better left out of the picture entirely.

Many people use lowercase to indicate bits, not bytes! So 1Kb = 1024 bits,
1KB = 1024 bytes, 1mb = 1048576 bits, 1Mb=1048576 bytes. When you look at
your speed in the network connection icon in the System Tray, this
convention is used. You see 10 (or 100) Mbps meaning megaBITS per second.
If it was MegaBYTES, it would show 10 (or 100) MBps.

Tom Lake

 

[Alex Nichol]

kind of a duh! question, but which is bigger mb or kb.

Well; *strictly* speaking m = milli = one thousandth. Which is useful
in places like millimeters, but not in computing contexts where people
often type it when they ought to use M = Mega = million. k = thousand.

So for you, the mb would be the bigger.

Note that things can get confusing in dealing with hard disks (or RAM)
where k is used in computers for 1024 and M for 1024 k (and G for 1024
M, or 1.073 billion). This causes confusion where makers of hard disks
describe them, quite correctly in GB, meaning decimal billion.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Ken;
In my view, the English language rules are confusing.
I before E, except............
Confusing? Yes. Do we just leave those letters out?
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