🗂 Bytes & File Sizes
03 Feb 2017🎯 Learning Targets
AP I can explain how binary sequences are used to represent digital data.
How big is this file?
I have a text file, howbig.txt.
It contains the text How big is this file?
So…how big is it?
Each ASCII character is 1 byte of data.
So, what if I write How big is this file? in, say, Microsoft Word.
| File | Size |
|---|---|
howbig.txt |
21 bytes |
howbig.docx |
37000 bytes |
Almost 2000x bigger!