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Kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes

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Kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes

RSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seMB to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 7 days 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 this here for posterity.

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