Is a kilobyte 1024 or 1000 bytes?

Is a kilobyte 1024 or 1000 bytes?

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One KB Is 1000 bytes
One KiB is 1024 bytes

1000. 1024 is a Kibibyte. (KiB)

kilobyte is 1024

Anything else is 1000
KB = 1024 bits

KiB = 1000 bits

Very wrong.

Why did you switch them around?


KB = 1024 existed long before KiB
Therefore the new one should be KiB = 1000

How so?

KiB existed since 2004

KB = 1024 since 1970s

1 KB = 1000 Byte only existed for the jews
1 KB = 1024 Byte is the real value

Sudo jokes are fucking stupid, so are the 1000 byte kilobyte metric faggots.

1024 byte kilobyte came first so suck a dick.

Kilo: x1000
Kibi: x2^10 = 1024
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>1024 byte kilobyte came first so suck a dick.
OP just asked a question. Why you gotta be so hostile, man?

>when your schools are jew'd

is it rape if I sudo a girl?

Common sense and uniformity. Everything other unit that has a kilo is always x1000

>when HDD makers cant compensate and want to call their stuff larger whilst not getting sued
KiB existed because of that
Everyone knows that KB is 1024 in computing before that Kibishit existed
your KB = 1000 bytes has no real purpose other than to help HDD makers not getting sued

Computers use 2^X ( 2^10 = 1024 )

>User is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

except its not base10 metric

it's fucking binary

2^8 = 1024
KB = 1024
KiB = 1000 because people are too fucking stupid to do base2 math these days

>
>2^8 = 256

>KB = 1024 existed long before KiB
No.
>Therefore the new one should be KiB = 1000
Neither.
>KiB existed since 2004
No, 1939.
>KB = 1024 since 1970s
30 years too late.
Wrong.
>1024 byte kilobyte came first
No.
>KB = 1024
>KiB = 1000
Another idiot ITT.

It is what you call it
Retards on Sup Forums are the last people who should be allowed to decide this

wrong

hard drive manufacturers use this fact to gimp you on your drive space.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilo-
Kilo has meant 1000 since 1795 or since antiquity depending on your view. You kilofags are just wrong.

1024 bytes = 1.024 kilobytes
1024 bytes = 1 kibibyte

anyone who tries to tell you otherwise got taken advantage of by data storage device manufacturers

That doesn't matter, there is no ambiguity about what KiB is defined as.

Kilo has always been base ten.

If you really cared about the exact amount of data that your drive can hold there are much bigger fish to fry than powers of 2 vs powers of 10.

Kilobyte is 1000 bytes
Kibibyte is 1024 bytes
When memory or storage shows GB or TB you can generally assume they mean GiB and TiB

>g-guise 24 TiB of difference in a 1 PiB don't matter
>why do you want a 1 PB disk for?
>you already have 1000 TB!
kill yourself kike

Pebibyte disks don't exist and arrays of disks have more depth than per-drive size so comparison at that level can be much less meaningful than maximum possible capacity.

This.
Also if you want to be completely unambiguous when talking with winfags you can just use single letters to mean base 10 units.

From man units:
y yocto 10^-24 = 0.000000000000000000000001
z zepto 10^-21 = 0.000000000000000000001
a atto 10^-18 = 0.000000000000000001
f femto 10^-15 = 0.000000000000001
p pico 10^-12 = 0.000000000001
n nano 10^-9 = 0.000000001
ยต micro 10^-6 = 0.000001
m milli 10^-3 = 0.001
c centi 10^-2 = 0.01
d deci 10^-1 = 0.1
da deka 10^ 1 = 10
h hecto 10^ 2 = 100
k kilo 10^ 3 = 1000
M mega 10^ 6 = 1000000
G giga 10^ 9 = 1000000000
T tera 10^12 = 1000000000000
P peta 10^15 = 1000000000000000
E exa 10^18 = 1000000000000000000
Z zetta 10^21 = 1000000000000000000000
Y yotta 10^24 = 1000000000000000000000000

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Again from man units:

Before these binary prefixes were introduced, it was fairly common to use k=1000
and K=1024, just like b=bit, B=byte. Unfortunately, the M is capital already, and
cannot be capitalized to indicate binary-ness.

At first that didn't matter too much, since memory modules and disks came in sizes
that were powers of two, so everyone knew that in such contexts "kilobyte" and
"megabyte" meant 1024 and 1048576 bytes, respectively. What originally was a
sloppy use of the prefixes "kilo" and "mega" started to become regarded as the
"real true meaning" when computers were involved. But then disk technology
changed, and disk sizes became arbitrary numbers. After a period of uncertainty
all disk manufacturers settled on the standard, namely k=1000, M=1000k, G=1000M.

The situation was messy: in the 14k4 modems, k=1000; in the 1.44MB diskettes,
M=1024000; and so on. In 1998 the IEC approved the standard that defines the
binary prefixes given above, enabling people to be precise and unambiguous.

Thus, today, MB = 1000000B and MiB = 1048576B.

In the free software world programs are slowly being changed to conform. When the
Linux kernel boots and says

hda: 120064896 sectors (61473 MB) w/2048KiB Cache

>sudo I love you
not
>say nothing if you to fuck 2>&1 /dev/null;

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sudo make me a sandwich version is better.
(and like 10 years older)

fucking griffith

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All people of knowledge and refined taste know that 1 KiB equals 1024B.

Only those who DOESN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT COMPUTERS, that is, who was raised using Microshit Windows, believes Kilo is a prefix for "1024".

Normal people don't care about it. Only VIDEO GAMES LOVING MANCHILDREN DO. DO NOT RESPECT MUH VIDEO GAME LOVING CHILDREN, THEY ARE NOT PEOPLE.

Kilo is a scientific term which existed long before Javascript, it means precisely 1000.

There are series of prepositions for powers of two:
kibi Ki
mibi Mi
gibi Gi

etc