What is the Difference between a 32-Bit Operating System And a 64-Bit?

32-Bit VS 64-Bit

L. Small
4 min readSep 4, 2020
Photo by david latorre romero on Unsplash

When choosing a version of the windows operating system, maybe we think about the windows such as the pros, home, and others. But in fact, there are other factors separating the windows version whether the system is 32-Bit or 64-Bit. Many of you may have heard the term, but don’t really understand it. For that, let’s discuss the difference between 32-Bit and 64-Bit?

What Makes a 32-Bit Or 64-Bit Computer

Whether your computer architecture is 32-bit or 64-bit depends on the processor (CPU) on your computer. Most computer processors come in one of these two categories, but 64-bit systems have replaced 32-bit over the past few years. 64-bit processors have more powerful functionality than 32-bit processors because they can hold and process more information.

To understand the difference between 32-bit and 64-bit, you have to understand a little about calculations in binary form. We must know that binary-only has two numbers that are 0 or 1. Thus, the 32-bit number has 2³² possible addresses, or 4,294,967,296. By contrast, the capacity of the 64-bit number is 2⁶⁴, or 18,446,744,073,709,551,616. Comparing approximately 4 billion bytes (about 4 gigabytes) to 18 quintillion bytes or about 18 billion…

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L. Small

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