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because kilo = 1000 it’s close enough to 1024
but then Jewish hard drive manufacturers started selling 100 megabyte drives as 100 million bytes and not 100 * 1024 * 1024 bytes
so they created the kibi-, mibi-, and gibi- prefixes that are 1024 of each other (represented as KiB, MiB and GiB, where the capital B is to distinguish Bytes from bits, another trick from Jewish manufacturers following the talmud)

according to hardware manufacturers 1KB is 1000bytes and 1024 bytes are called a kibibyte (KiB)

>>12703
Why not just have it be kilobytes for 2^10
Ahh

>>12668
because ACKCHYUALLEY, 1024 bytes are one kibityte, aka KiB
people mix them up for KB, KiB is also shortened to K but people confused them for KB so i usually say KiB/MiB/GiB/etc instead of K/M/B/etc
they didnt just create some random prefixes because they wanted to, they created them because its accurate, since youre using a system where 2^10 is the next unit
you just continue whatever its called, the series of 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, …
it wouldnt make sense to just cut off 24 bytes at the end, this adds up if you have really large hard drives in the TiB range, and people will call it a "scam" because theyre stupid wintoddlers who are used to a base 10 system poorly adapted for a system based on 2^X

>>12704
because appending a zero is easier and more natural if youre doing rough calculations that dont have to be exact
if youre converting TiB to GB it wont matter much, but converting TB to GB will just work, since theyre both base-10
kilo means a thousand, hence the kilo-gram, 1000 gram