oops - left out two more (important) divisions.
1024 bytes per kilobyte; 1024 kilobytes per megabyte:
9,450,000 / 1024 =9228.5 kilobytes
9228.5 / 1024 = 9.01 megabytes
-p
On Feb 20, 2004, at 1:11 PM, patrick kelley wrote:
> part of the problem is the need to incorporate color depth as well.
>
> a 5 x 7 inch, 300 dpi scan equates to 3,150,000 total pixels.
>
> if it is 24-bit color:
>
> 3,150,000 * 24 = 75,600,000
>
> and then, as there are 8 bits in a 'byte': 75,600,000 divided by 8:
>
> = 9,450,000 or about 9.4 megabytes.
>
> pat kelley
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> On Feb 20, 2004, at 12:41 PM, Sandy King wrote:
>
>> I know there must be a fairly simple way to figure out the total size
>> of a file in mb based on scan resolution and size in inches but when
>> I do the calcuation the way I think it should work it never agrees
>> with the size of the actual scan.
>>
>> So how is the calculation made?
>>
>> Sandy King
>>
>
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