Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes
Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes
I often find myself explaining the same things in real life and online, so I recently started writing technical blog posts.
This one is about why it was a mistake to call 1024 bytes a kilobyte. It's about a 20min read so thank you very much in advance if you find the time to read it.
Feedback is very much welcome. Thank you.
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Because SI prefixes are always powers of the base. Base 10 is the most common, but that's more human psychology that math.
SI prefixes are literally just base ten and not really about human psychology.
Please count your fingers and reevaluate your response.
Bold of you to assume they had 10 fingers
I think they mean it's easier to refer to powers of 1000 with the SI units, rather than of 1024 as with Kibi and the lot. Especially higher up in the prefixes, because it starts to diverge more and more from the expected value.