What's the equivalent of 32KB?

An odd question, I know...

What is 32KB worth these days? Can someone put it in terms of seconds of high quality audio, numbers of alphanumerics or pages of a typical document? Or another equally simple analogy? (seconds worth of a Skype call?)

Cheers
Dave

This is gonna be a good one... why do you ask Dave?

As you know, there are 8 bits to a byte. 'B' = bytes, 'b' = bits. Your 32kB = 256kb.

So, using an audio analogy, for a standard audio file played at 128kbps (the minimum 'apparent' CD quality - still sounds bad imo for my line of work), thats 2 seconds worth of audio.

As for a Skype call, if you're upload speed by your ISP is e.g. connected at 256kbps, then you'd barely have a two word phrase (bugger off!).

Seanie.

A few sentences in Word.

A few seconds of mp3, a small notepad document...
can I ask why you are worried about such a small file size such as 32KB

32Kbytes is 32 * 1024 * characters (Characters in the Ascii standard are representable as a byte )
So that is 32768 characters and given that most lines of text are about 80 characters, that represents 410 lines of text.
Walter Scott Houston's book Deep Sky Wonders has approximately 44 lines per page, so 32 Kbytes would present about 9 pages of text in his book

Typical high quality audio is encoded at 256Kbps or 320Kbps, so you would get 1 second or less of high quality audio

Darragh

32Kbytes is 32 * 1024 * characters (Characters in the Ascii standard are representable as a byte )
So that is 32768 characters and given that most lines of text are about 80 characters, that represents 410 lines of text.
Walter Scott Houston's book Deep Sky Wonders has approximately 44 lines per page, so 32 Kbytes would present about 9 pages of text in his book

Except that UTF-8 and just about every modern character encoding scheme uses two bytes rather than 1 .... so half that