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Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes (zeta.one)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 87 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (22 children)

A lot of people are replying as if OP asked a question. It's a link to a blog post explaining why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes (exactly as the title says!). OP knows the answer, in fact they know it so well they wrote an extensive post about it.

Thank you for the write up! You should re-check the spelling and grammar as some sections had some troubles. I have a sentence I need to go to the post to get, so let me edit this later!

Edit: the second half of this sentence is a mess: "The factors don’t solely consist of twos, but ten are certainly lot of them." Otherwise nothing jumped out at me but I would reread it just in case!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

A lot of people are replying as if OP asked a question.

I think part of that is because outgoing links without a preview image are really easy to confuse with text-only posts, particularly because Reddit didn't allow adding both a text and a link simultaneously. Though in this case the text should've tipped people off that there's a link as well.

As for the actual topic, I agree with OP. I often forget to do it right when speaking, but I try to at least get it right when writing.

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