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[Missi]

How many MB is 150000 (I assume that's KB's) ? Thanks

[cypher543]

146.484375 megabytes

[Missi]

146.484375 megabytes

Hm, that's the same answer I found, but I must have misunderstood the difference between bytes and kbytes.  I tried uploading a picture of 744kb, but it said it was too big (although I thought I had 146MB).

[z3rb]

Are you uploading it with CPanel or FTP?

[Missi]

Are you uploading it with CPanel or FTP?

With CMSimple on my website.

[cypher543]

You sure it doesn't have an upload limit? Try sifting through the settings. It could limit the size of uploads so people don't upload 2 megabyte avatar images or something.

[Missi]

You sure it doesn't have an upload limit? Try sifting through the settings. It could limit the size of uploads so people don't upload 2 megabyte avatar images or something.

Yes, it does have an upload limit. All it says is 150000. It doesn't say anything else, so I assumed it was KB's.  But apparently there are bytes even smaller than KB's.  Ijust added another 0 to the limit size, and the picture uploaded.  I still don't know what all these sizes are, it's confusing to me.

Thanks for your responses  

[garg]

150,000 bytes would be 150 KB so by adding one zero you now have 1,500 KB and that is 1.5 MB.
Since you upped it to 1,500KB (or 1500000 ) it went ahead and uploaded the 744 KB file

Also if you go to google and type

"150000 bytes to MB" (with out quotes) it will tell you

Edited by garg, 03 August 2006 - 07:59 PM.

[koolaidman]

well,

8 bits = 1 byte
1024 bytes to a Kb
1024 KB to a Mb
1024 Mb to a Gb
1024 Gb to a Terabyte.

the extra 24 sometimes throught people off and you miss points on IT exams if you forget too.

Edited by koolaidman, 04 August 2006 - 04:13 PM.

[Jeremy Banks]

well,

8 bits = 1 byte
1024 bytes to a Kb
1024 KB to a Mb
1024 Mb to a Gb
1024 Gb to a Terabyte.

the extra 24 sometimes throught people off and you miss points on IT exams if you forget too.

1 Byte = 8 Bits
1 Kibibyte = 1024 Bytes
1 Kilobyte = 1000 Bytes
1 Mebibyte = 1024 Kibibytes
1 Megabyte = 1000 Kilobytes
1 Gibibyte = 1,024 Mebibytes
1 Gigabytes = 1,000 Megabytes

So says a Wikipedia Article. I don't know if I agree.

[war59312]

Wikipedia is full of it.

Context is what counts...

[Microscopic Orange]

i'm assume it's talking about bytes(php, bytes, they link don't they?)

[koolaidman]

I've never heard od a Kibibyte, wikipedia is wrong, Its all based on the number two (hence Base 2). Whne you were little and first learned multpilication you no doubt counted via this method: 2, 4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024.

there are apparently several definitions of how many of X go into Y that I didn't know before.

Edited by koolaidman, 05 August 2006 - 10:30 AM.

[Jeremy Banks]

you no doubt counted via this method: 2, 4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024.

I don't remember doing that, but I do understand base 2.

[Tachyon]

I've never heard od a Kibibyte, wikipedia is wrong

Just because you've never heard of something doesn't mean it is nonexistent.

The unit was defined by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in December 1998. Use of mebibyte and related units is strongly endorsed by IEEE and CIPM and is slowly becoming more common.

The binary prefix article goes on to explain how these new prefixes were defined precisely because the SI prefixes were inaccurate when used in a binary context, and thus caused confusion.  In the world of science, miscommunication can lead to big and costly mistakes.

No one is "wrong".  However, many institutions are encouraging that these new binary prefixes be adopted in place of using the SI prefixes to avoid confusion.

[war59312]

...Its all based on the number two (hence Base 2). Whne you were little and first learned multpilication you no doubt counted via this method: 2, 4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024...

he-he Subnetting. Dont forget though, there is also base 10 and base 16. Well those are the most used ones anyways.

[Nepherim]

Just for future reference, typing "150000 kb in Mb" in Google provides the answer you seek

[Jeremy Banks]

Just for future reference, typing "150000 kb in Mb" in Google provides the answer you seek

Capital "B" if you want bytes, the calculation you did is for bits.