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Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes
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It's because the power of 2 makes more sense to the computer.
This is such a strange post and comment section to me. Computers work because of binary.
which is 2-state, which is why it's powers of 2
which is why we have kibi, mebi, gibi, etc
Which nobody uses in the industry because we all know that storage uses base2 prefixes.
It's actually a decimal Vs binary thing.
1000 and 1024 take the same amount of bytes so 1024 makes more sense to a computer.
Nothing to do with metric as computers don't use that. Also not really to do with units.
It wasn't/isn't. It's nothing to do with Americans. It was (and often still is) because of binary, as the article mentions.
2 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024.
So no, kilo is not always a thousand when dealing with computers.
That's what the blog post is about ๐
why are you the way that you are?
I've honestly just come to the conclusion that being an asshole about the fact that other countries exist is just the continental past time of Europe.
Like, Americans get the most of it but they're like this toward people from other European countries too.