Kilobyte to Yobibyte - 512 kB to YiB Conversion
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kB to YiB - Conversion Formula and Steps
Kilobyte and Yobibyte are units of digital information used to measure storage capacity and data transfer rate. Kilobyte is a decimal standard unit where as Yobibyte is binary. One Kilobyte is equal to 1000 bytes. One Yobibyte is equal to 1024^8 bytes. There are 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706.176 Kilobytes in one Yobibyte.
| Source Data Unit | Target Data Unit |
|---|---|
|
Kilobyte (kB)
Equal to 1000 bytes
(Decimal Unit) |
Yobibyte (YiB)
Equal to 1024^8 bytes
(Binary Unit) |
The formula of converting the Kilobyte to Yobibyte is represented as follows :
Note : Here we are converting the units between different standards. The source unit Kilobyte is Decimal where as the target unit Yobibyte is Binary. In such scenario, first we need to convert the source unit to the basic unit - Byte - multiply with 1000, and then convert to target unit by dividing with 1024^8 .
Now let us apply the above formula and, write down the steps to convert from Kilobyte (kB) to Yobibyte (YiB). This way, we can try to simplify and reduce to an easy to apply formula.
Yobibyte = Kilobyte x 1000 / 10248
Yobibyte = Kilobyte x 1000 / (1024x1024x1024x1024x1024x1024x1024x1024)
Yobibyte = Kilobyte x 1000 / 1208925819614629174706176
Yobibyte = Kilobyte x 0.0000000000000000000008271806125530276748
If we apply the above Formula and steps, conversion from 512 kB to YiB, will be processed as below.
- = 512 x 1000 / 10248
- = 512 x 1000 / (1024x1024x1024x1024x1024x1024x1024x1024)
- = 512 x 1000 / 1208925819614629174706176
- = 512 x 0.0000000000000000000008271806125530276748
- = 0.0000000000000000004235164736271501695341
- i.e. 512 kB is equal to 0.0000000000000000004235164736271501695341 YiB.
(Result rounded off to 40 decimal positions.)
Excel Formula to convert from kB to YiB
Apply the formula as shown below to convert from 512 Kilobyte to Yobibyte.
| A | B | C | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kilobyte (kB) | Yobibyte (YiB) | |
| 2 | 512 | =A2 * 0.0000000000000000000008271806125530276748 | |
| 3 |
Download - Excel Template for Kilobyte to Yobibyte Conversion
If you want to perform bulk conversion locally in your system, then download and make use of above Excel template.
Python Code for kB to YiB Conversion
You can use below code to convert any value in Kilobyte to Yobibyte in Python.
yobibyte = kilobyte * 1000 / (1024*1024*1024*1024*1024*1024*1024*1024)
print("{} Kilobyte = {} Yobibyte".format(kilobyte,yobibyte))
The first line of code will prompt the user to enter the Kilobyte as an input. The value of Yobibyte is calculated on the next line, and the code in third line will display the result.