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Week Three - Units of Storage in Computer

The document explains various units of storage in computers, starting from bits and bytes to larger units like kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, and terabytes. It details the definitions and conversions between these units, emphasizing that 1 byte equals 8 bits and providing conversion examples. Additionally, it includes assignments and classwork related to storage unit conversions and their relationships.

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Week Three - Units of Storage in Computer

The document explains various units of storage in computers, starting from bits and bytes to larger units like kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, and terabytes. It details the definitions and conversions between these units, emphasizing that 1 byte equals 8 bits and providing conversion examples. Additionally, it includes assignments and classwork related to storage unit conversions and their relationships.

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UNITS OF STORAGE IN COMPUTER

The most common unit of storage in the computer is called byte which is equal to 8 bits.
A computer memory is made up of millions of bytes. All data and information fed into a computer are stored in form of bytes.
They include;
- Bits
- Bytes
- Nibble
- Word
- Kilobyte
- Megabyte, etc

BITS:
The smallest unit in computer processing is called a bit. It is a unit of data that can either be 0 or 1.
A bit is the basic unit of information in computing. The bit value can also be interpreted as logical values; true/false, yes/no,
on/off.

NIBBLE:
A nibble is a collection of bits on a 4-bit boundary. It is also called nibble or nyble.
It is half of an octet. A nibble is half of a byte.
1 Nibble = 4 bits

WORD:
A word is a natural unit of data. The number of bits in a word is also called word width, word size or word length.
A word is made up of 2 bytes which is 4 nibbles or 16 bits.
A word is classified into two;
a. Double word
b. Quad word

DOUBLE WORD:
A double word is equivalent to 2 words which is 4 bytes.

QUAD WORD
A quad word is equivalent to 4 words which is 2 double words that is 8 bytes or 64 bits.

BYTE:
A byte is a character containing 8 bits e.g. 10101111 and it is the smallest group of bits used by a computer. A byte is the basic
unit of storage in the computer memory. One byte is one character. A character can be a number, letter or symbol.
1 byte = 8 bits

KILOBYTE (KB)
One kilobyte (KB) is 1024 bytes which is equivalent to 103 bytes.

MEGABYTE (MB)
One megabyte (MB) is 1,048,576 bytes which is equivalent to 106 bytes. 1MB is also equivalent to 1024KB.

GIGABYTE (GB)
One gigabyte is 1,073,741,824bytes which is equivalent to 109 bytes and also equivalent to 1024MB.

TERABYTE (TB)

Week three computer studies lesson note for Jss2 1


One terabyte (TB) is 1,099,511,627, 776bytes which is equivalent to 1012 bytes and also equivalent to 1024GB.

The standard unit of storage values is represented as;


8 bits = 1byte
1024 bytes = 1KB
1024KB = 1MB
1024MB = 1GB
1024GB = 1TB

ASSIGNMENT

Write out the equivalent measurement of the following unit of storage in bytes;
a. 1KB
b. 1MB
c. 1GB
d. 1TB
e. 1 Word
f. 1 Nibble

CONVERSION FROM ONE UNIT OF STORAGE TO ANOTHER

CONVERSION FROM KILOBYTE TO MEGABYTE

Convert 50KB to MB

1024KB = 1MB
50KB = ?
= 50 X 1 = 50
1024 1024

= 0.0488MB

CLASS WORK 1: Convert 1024KB to MB

CONVERSION FROM MEGABYTE TO KILOBYTE

Convert 0.15MB to KB

1024KB = 1MB
? = 0.15MB
= 1024 X 0.15
= 153.6KB

CLASS WORK 2: Convert 50MB to KB

CONVERSION FROM GIGABYTE TO MEGABYTE

Convert 0.1024GB to MB

1024MB = 1GB
? = 0.1024GB
= 1024 x 0.1024

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= 104.857MB
ASSIGNMENT

- Explain in details why 1MB is equal to 1024KB and not 1000KB.


- Outline other storage units after terabytes and state their values.

Week three computer studies lesson note for Jss2 3

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