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CodyFagley

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From: Laramie, Wyoming

Registered: 2015-06-18

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Re: Missing RAM memory

That is correct 1 MiB = 1.049 MB.  However, 4 GB of ram would be 3.72529 GiB, which would mean he is actually getting more ram than the manufacturer installed.

That memory read out is close to 4000 because it goes off MB

Last edited by CodyFagley (2015-06-23 16:53:48)

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Stebalien

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Re: Missing RAM memory

The simplest answer is that OP has exactly the amount of RAM that the manufacturer installed. See, this is an old, old story about binary math, peripheral manufacturers, and sales puffery. Hell, even Bill Gates got it wrong in a 1990s Computer Bowl Quiz question, "How many bytes are there in a megabyte?"

Bill G's wrong answer: 1,000,000 bytes
Correct answer: 1,048,576 (or 1,024 x 1,024) bytes

If you apply the proper math--something hardware manufacturers do NOT do--you will see that this is the case here. They want you to believe the higher number.

Basically, you gotta be older'n dirt, like me, to understand the history of the question: "When is a gigabyte not a gigabyte?"

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No. There are 1,000,000 bytes in a megabyte. There are 1,047,576 bytes in a mebibyte.

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Scimmia

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Re: Missing RAM memory

No. There are 1,000,000 bytes in a megabyte. There are 1,047,576 bytes in a mebibyte.

mebibyte is a relatively recent addition and hasn't really caught on (yet?). Historically and in many, many uses, megabyte is still 2^50.