Year 8 – Representations: from clay to silicon Activity handout

Lesson 5 – Large quantities

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Bits, bytes, and prefixes
Unit conversions

bit b binary digit

What
(0 or 1)
How bits
does it do I
mean? convert? ⨉8 ÷8
byte B 8 binary digits bytes

no prefix

⨉1000 ÷1000

What kilo- K thousands How kilo

does it do I
mean? convert?
⨉1000 ÷1000
mega- M millions mega
⨉1000 ÷1000
giga- G billions giga
⨉1000 ÷1000
tera- T trillions tera

Use these tables to translate: Use these graphs to convert between

units:
200 bytes = 200 groups of 8 binary digits
1Mb = 1 Megabit = 1 million binary digits 5GB = 5 ⨉ 1000MB = 5000MB
10KB = 10 Kilobytes = 10 thousand groups of 8 bits 700MB = 700 ÷ 1000GB = 0.7GB
24Kb = 24 ÷ 8 KB = 3KB