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Above is approximately 1 million grains of salt.
1 megabyte is about 1 million bytes, or 8 million bits.
1000 beakers of salt like the one above is 1 billion grains of salt.
1 gigabyte is 1 billion bytes, or 8 billion bits.
This is 1 liter of salt. Recall that 1 gigabyte is 8 billion bits. It would take about 370 liters to hold 8 billion grains of salt. Consider that a piddly 1 gigabyte thumb drive has the circuitry to hold that many ones and zeros! Whew!
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Textbook Site
Computer Security
Top 10 Things You Should Not Share on Social Networks
60 Minutes video: "The Internet Is Infected"
Computer History
Computer Hardware
How RAM (memory) Works
How Flash Memory Works
Magnetic Force Micrograph of Hard Disk
SEM Image of Compact Disk
Interesting Images
Yabasic Programs
Right-click the programs below and save onto your computer. Open with Yabasic. Have fun!
The Mandelbrot Set Explorer
Hypercube Viewer
Prime Number Finder
Pick Up Sticks Game
8 Questions (How is this game related to binary numbers?)
LOGO Programming
LOGO Fractals and more
LOGO Programming Tutorial - JHB
LOGO Programming - Mike Koss
LOGO Navajo Rug Designing
Online LOGO Interpreter
Mr. Logan's Rug Sample
Rotating Cube
Tee
Turtle Robot for LOGO
http://www.southcom.com.au/~robot/Robot%20Pics/Turtle.jpg
Misc.
ASCII - Binary Converter
Binary Translator
HTML Color Names
Bar Code Generator
A closeup of a movie film showing how the sound is encoded in 2 different digital formats as well as in analog.
Peek.yab
The above is a Yabasic file that will allow you to look at the binary of any file you have access to on your computer. It will also open a window that will graphically show the values - useful when studying 8 bit, single channel wav files.
Online QR Code Generator
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