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Unit Converter
Converts length, weight, area, volume, temperature and speed using standard conversion factors.
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Unit Converter / Bytes Converter
The unit converter handles length, weight and temperature with fixed factors (temperature is affine, so it uses formulas). The bytes converter only converts among B, KB, MB, GB and TB, where the real difficulty is choosing between base 1000 and base 1024.
| Unit Converter | Bytes Converter | |
|---|---|---|
| Converts | Physical quantities: metres, kilograms, Celsius | Storage capacity |
| The real decision | None — factors are exact and fixed | Base 1000 (SI) versus base 1024 (IEC) |
| Usual confusion | Why temperature cannot use one multiplier | Why a 1TB drive shows 931GB |
| Output | Every unit in that category | All five units from B to TB |
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Bytes Converter
Converts between B, KB, MB, GB and TB, switching between the 1000 and 1024 conventions.
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When to use Unit Converter
- Converting height and weight, screen sizes, room or oven temperatures.
- Going between inch / ft / lb / oz and metric.
- Anything involving temperature — the bytes converter does not do it.
When to use Bytes Converter
- Reading drive, memory or file sizes, and explaining vendor labels versus OS displays.
- Writing capacity specs that must line up with what the OS reports, which means switching bases.
- Normalising a pile of values recorded in MB to GB.
Verdict
They do not overlap: capacity and 1000/1024 questions go to the bytes converter, physical quantities to the unit converter. Nearly every "where did my gigabytes go" answer lives in the base choice.
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