Information size measurements

• Kilobyte (KB)
• One kilobyte equals about 1024 bytes
• 1KB is about 140 words, about a half page of typed double-spaced text (words only)
• Megabyte (MB)
• One megabyte equals about 1000 KB
• One megabyte equals about 1,000,000 bytes
• One megabyte equals about 500 pages of text, or one large book
• Gigabyte (GB)
• One gigabyte equals about 1000 MB
• One gigabyte equals about 1,000,000 KB
• One gigabyte equals about 1,000,000,000 bytes
• One gigabyte equals over 1,000 books of text