How many whole floppy disks do you need to write a program with a capacity of 8.5 megabytes?
| November 26, 2020 | education
How many whole floppy disks do you need to write a program with a capacity of 8.5 megabytes? The capacity of a floppy disk is 1.41 megabytes.
Divide the capacity of the program by the capacity of the floppy disks and get their number:
8.5 MB / 1.41 MB = 6.0283 floppy disks
Since the floppy disks need an integer, we round up to a larger integer and get 7 floppies.
Answer: 7.
One of the components of a person's success in our time is receiving modern high-quality education, mastering the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary for life in society. A person today needs to study almost all his life, mastering everything new and new, acquiring the necessary professional qualities.
