Why does 8gb of ram display like 8192mb and not 8000mb?

Question

In informatics parts there’s always a little bit more when talking about GB or similars. Why it’s like that?

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Answer 1

Because:
– 1 bit is the smallest unit in computing.
– 8 bits is a byte.
– 1024 bytes is a kilo-bite (kilo is metric for thousand).
– 1024 kilobytes is a megabyte.
– 1024 megabytes is a gigabyte.
– **8 gigabytes is 8192 megabytes.**