Why does digital storage always have the same values eg. 32gb, 64gb, 128gb, 256gb etc. and why do they double every time they go up in size? Is this a limitation or just a standard?
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It’s because it’s based on multiples of two: 2,4,8,16,32… (base 2 mathematics) instead of multiples of 10, which is our standard human number system (base 10 mathematics). Computers use base 2 mathematics essentially because of binary code (where everything is a 1 or a 0). There’s a ton more I could get into such as exponents etc, but that should suffice for a 5 year old.
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