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Hexadecimals are used instead of binary because they are quicker to type, easier for humans to read, and easier to convert to binary than decimal. Hexadecimals represent numbers and quantities of bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, petabytes, exabytes, zettabytes, and yottabytes in multiples of 1024 units. The document also provides a table showing the number of 3MB photos that can be stored on storage devices with capacities of 1 kilobyte through 1 yottabyte.

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Storage Capacity

Hexadecimals are used instead of binary because they are quicker to type, easier for humans to read, and easier to convert to binary than decimal. Hexadecimals represent numbers and quantities of bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, petabytes, exabytes, zettabytes, and yottabytes in multiples of 1024 units. The document also provides a table showing the number of 3MB photos that can be stored on storage devices with capacities of 1 kilobyte through 1 yottabyte.

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Why are hexadecimals used instead of binary?

Hexadecimals are quicker to type in than binary. It is also easier for humans to
read than binary. Plus, hexadecimals are easier to convert into binary than
denary. Complete the connection between Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte,
Terabyte, Petabytes, Exabyte, Zettabyte and Yottabyte.
Task 1

Unit

Number

Description

Kilobyte =

1024

Bytes

Megabyte =

1024

Kilobytes

Gigabyte =

1024

Megabyte

Terabyte =

1024

Gigabyte

Petabytes =

1024

Terabyte

Exabyte =

1024

Petabytes

Zettabyte =

1024

Exabyte

Yottabyte =

1024

Zettabyte

Task 2

If I had a 3MB photo how many photos could we store on each device.
Hard drive capacity
1 Kilobytes (KB)

Number of 3 MB photo that could be stored.


None

1 Megabyte (MB)

0.33

1 Gigabyte (GB)

331

1 Terabyte (TB)

339275

1 Petabytes (TB)
1 Exabyte (EB)
1 Zettabyte (ZB)

Why are hexadecimals used instead of binary?


1 Yottabyte (YB)

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