A gigabyte (GB) is a unit of digital information storage that is commonly used to measure the size of files, storage devices, and data transfer rates. To understand how many kilobytes (KB) are in a gigabyte, it’s important to know the relationship between these units.
1 gigabyte (GB) is equal to 1,024 megabytes (MB), and 1 megabyte (MB) is equal to 1,024 kilobytes (KB). Therefore, to find out how many kilobytes are in a gigabyte, you multiply 1,024 by 1,024.
Here’s the calculation:
1 GB = 1,024 MB
1 MB = 1,024 KB
1 GB = 1,024 MB × 1,024 KB/MB = 1,048,576 KB
So, there are 1,048,576 kilobytes in a gigabyte.
This conversion is based on the binary system used in computing, where each unit is a power of 2. This is why the numbers are multiples of 1,024 rather than 1,000, which is used in the decimal system.