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RSS BotMB to Hacker NewsEnglish · 22 days ago

Kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes

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Kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes

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RSS BotMB to Hacker NewsEnglish · 22 days ago
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1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes
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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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    21 days ago

    All the more reason to be precise

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