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[Antony Stone]

On Thursday 07 December 2017 at 20:43:52, Ing. Pedro Pablo Delgado Martell 
wrote:

> "In our kilobyte - one thousand twenty-four bytes."
> 
> Your kilobyte???? Ok, let's move on, there is no point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte

"In historical usage in some areas of information technology, particularly in 
reference to digital memory capacity, kilobyte denotes 1024 (2^10) bytes. This 
arises from the powers-of-two sizing common to memory circuit design. In this 
context, the symbols K and KB are often used."

"The kilobyte has traditionally been used to refer to 1024 bytes (2^10 B), a 
usage still common. The usage of the metric prefix kilo for binary multiples 
arose as a convenience, because 1000 approximates 1024."

"The binary representation of 1024 bytes typically uses the symbol KB, with an 
uppercase letter K. The B is often omitted in informal use. For example, a 
processor with 65,536 bytes of cache memory might be said to have "64K" of 
cache. In this convention, one thousand and twenty-four kilobytes (1024 KB) is 
equal to one megabyte (1 MB), where 1 MB is 1024^2 bytes."

Hope that helps,


Antony.

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