Powers of two

You need to know the powers of two like the back of your hand.

The most imporant one that people test on are 2^10. Its generally safe to assume 1000 (instead of exact 1024).

  • You will be asked to use it for stuff like log2 (n). A thousand is 10 a million is 20 a billion is 30

  • You will use it to get KB (/1000) MB (/1000000) etc.

Note KB/MB/GB/TB are used for bytes. Its best to stick with this for napkin discussions.

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