MEMORY STORAGE CALCULATIONS - Rutgers University

When you buy a 128 MB RAM chip for a computer, you actually get 128 binary megabytes, or about 134.22 million (128 MB x 1024 KB/MB x 1024 B/KB). Your computer BIOS will read the RAM as 128 MB (134.22 / (1.024 x 1.024). When you buy a 15 GB hard drive, however, you might well get 15 decimal gigabytes, so when the drive is ................
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