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Is a megabyte the largest unit of measurement?
For measuring computer storage (memory), both gigabyte and terabyte are larger. See related link for more prefixes. Note that there has been some confusion with using the 'metric' prefixes with memory. Originally, a kilobyte was 1024 bytes (not 1000), and a megabyte was (1024 x 1024 = 1048,576 bytes)
Is aproxiametly one million bytes?
Almost 1 Megabyte. 1 Megabyte is a unit of computer memory or data storage capacity, equal to 1,048,576 (220) bytes.
What is the effect of increasing the number of bytes allocated to the mantissa?
The mantissa holds the bits which represent the number, increasing the number of bytes for the mantissa increases the number of bits for the mantissa and so increases the size of the number which can be accurately held, ie it increases the accuracy of the stored number.
How many bytes does the letter S take up?
The letter S uses 1 byte of memory, as do all the other ASCII characters.
What does the K after a number mean?
Depending upon context it could mean:A temperature on the kelvin scale, eg 0K is absolute zero, 273.15K is the freezing point of water;the number is multiplied by 1000, eg 10K means 10 × 1,000 = 10,000 (this is the basis of the kilo- prefix in the metric system, written as a lower case 'k');an abbreviation for kilometres (especially with commentators), eg a 10K race is a 10 km race (this comes from the previous context in that 10K = 10,000 and metres is assumed to be/implicit as the length unit);in old computing terms it could refer to 1024 bytes, eg a Commodore Pet 3032 came with 32K RAM, meaning it had 32 × 1024 bytes = 32,768 bytes of RAM (1024 is the closest power of 2 to 1000, and the "bytes" was implicit when talking about memory sizes back then).
