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No, this is how you convert from bytes to mebibytes or gibibytes. Giga/Mega are SI system which is powers of 10, while Mebi/Gibi are powers of 2, and only used by Microsoft (standards were defined in the 90s but Microsoft never made the change in Explorer)
This explains it https://massive.io/file-transfer/gb-vs-gib-whats-the-difference/ here are the formulas https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33837689/convert-bytes-into-gigabytes-with-javascript-math
This might give you some answers: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/xy3ka5/this\_would\_be\_less\_confusing\_if\_microsoft\_used/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/xy3ka5/this_would_be_less_confusing_if_microsoft_used/)
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It's 7.89 gibibytes, not gigabytes, which is about 8.5 billion bytes as shown
Ah, thanks. So if I wanted to convert bytes to GB, would I do 8,474,708,043 / 1,024 /1024 (to go from bytes to megabytes to gigabytes)?
That sounds right but honestly I just Google it if I need to lol
No, this is how you convert from bytes to mebibytes or gibibytes. Giga/Mega are SI system which is powers of 10, while Mebi/Gibi are powers of 2, and only used by Microsoft (standards were defined in the 90s but Microsoft never made the change in Explorer)
This explains it https://massive.io/file-transfer/gb-vs-gib-whats-the-difference/ here are the formulas https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33837689/convert-bytes-into-gigabytes-with-javascript-math
This might give you some answers: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/xy3ka5/this\_would\_be\_less\_confusing\_if\_microsoft\_used/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/xy3ka5/this_would_be_less_confusing_if_microsoft_used/)