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Kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes

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Kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes

RSS BotBM to Hacker NewsEnglish · 8 months ago

1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes

We usually learn that 1 kilobyte is 1024 bytes, 1 MB is 1024 kilobytes, etc. But is this true or a kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?

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yup! serves me right for responding while rushing out of the door. gonna leave that here for posterity.

edit: and… switching networks managed to triple post this response. i think thats enough internet for today.
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  LOL, redundancy FTW 👍😂🤣

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