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U2l1 Activity Guide - Bytes and File Sizes

A byte is the standard unit for measuring digital data and is equal to 8 bits. Larger units like kilobytes and megabytes are now commonly used to measure larger files and amounts of stored data on computers. The document provides examples of common file types and their typical sizes in bytes, kilobytes, megabytes and other units.

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A byte is the standard unit for measuring digital data and is equal to 8 bits. Larger units like kilobytes and megabytes are now commonly used to measure larger files and amounts of stored data on computers. The document provides examples of common file types and their typical sizes in bytes, kilobytes, megabytes and other units.

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Bytes and File Sizes

What is a byte? A byte is a unit of data that is 8 bits long. A byte is the standard chunk size for binary
information in most modern computers

Larger Chunks of Data: On modern computers the amount of information we can create and store has
grown so large that we need new units of measurement to describe the size of our data. Use these
websites for your research.

Stanford University - CS 101 - Kilobytes Megabytes Gigabytes:


[Link]

Computer Hope - How much is 1 byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, etc.?


[Link]

Example of File Type or Data Measured in this


Unit Number of Bytes (approx)
Unit

Kilobyte (KB) About 1000 bytes A small email text is about 2kb

Megabyte (MB) About 1 million bytes Mp3 audio is about 1mb/min

Gigabyte (GB) About a billion bytes A flash drive might hold 32 gb

Terabyte (TB) 1 trillion bytes 2 tb hardrive

1,125,899,906,842,624 (250) 41,943 25GB Blu-ray discs


Petabyte (PB)
bytes

1,152,921,504,606,846,976 42,949,672 25GB Blu-ray discs


Exabyte (EB)
(260) bytes

How big are the files I use every day? Try to determine the size of files you probably use every day.
You can either research these answers online or check the size of actual files on your computer.
PC/WINDOWS: Right-click and choose Properties
MAC: Ctrl+click and choose Get Info

Size as # of pages, minutes,


File type Size of file in Bytes, KB, MB, GB, etc.
seconds, or dimensions

page of plain text (.txt) About 500 words, or 2500 2500 Bytes, 2.5KB
characters

.jpg image 96x166 4.15 KB (4,255 bytes)

animated .gif image 500x600 1912KB (1,912,000 bytes)

.pdf file 2 paes 224 KB (229,537 bytes)

Audio file as .mp3 3min 20sec 4.61 MB (4,842,585 bytes)

movie file such as .mov or 1h 45min 4.40MB (4,400,000 bytes)


.mp4

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