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- noun computing Strictly, 210 (1,024)
bytes , as opposed to akilobyte .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a unit of information equal to 1024 bytes
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"The kibibyte is closely related to the kilobyte, which can be used either as a synonym for kibibyte or to refer to 103 bytes = 1,000 bytes see binary prefix."
Snow Leopard Reports Hard Drive Capacity Correctly (In Base 10) | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Well they are technically taking the correct side in the whole base two/base ten, kibibyte/kilobyte argument but certainly going against the flow of quite a few years of practice.
Snow Leopard Reports Hard Drive Capacity Correctly (In Base 10) | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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You are correct, the terminology should be kibibyte.
Snow Leopard Reports Hard Drive Capacity Correctly (In Base 10) | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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ISO standards say a kilobyte (KB) is 1,000 bytes, and a kibibyte (KiB, kilo-binary byte) is 1,024 bytes.
Snow Leopard Reports Hard Drive Capacity Correctly (In Base 10) | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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1 KiB (kibibyte) = 1,024 bytes (Note: big k) 1 MiB (mebibyte) = 1,024 KiB = 1,048,576 bytes
Neowin.net Sadat Karim 2010
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The “correct answer” is that a “kilobyte” (kB) is 1000 bytes and a “kibibyte” (KB) is 1024 bytes.
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