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On the contrary.
KB = 1,000 bytes and MB = 1,000,000 is empirical.
KiB = 1024 bytes or 2^10^ and MiB = 1,048,576 or 2^20^ is Metric.
Remember, empirical is the miserable system the rest of the world abandoned because it made math and science difficult. KB makes storage miserable, never being clear whether your have the exact space your box claims it does. Please continue to Free^TM^ yourself from British "nonsense", while the rest of the world evolves.
Empirical means based on data. The word you are looking for is imperial.
Also, metric measurements are in base 10, so you have it backwards.
Thank you for majoring in English. We need people like you to ruin the peace in this fragile world.
Many people are learning English as a foreign language through using it on the internet. Lazy native speakers hsing it incorrecrly despite knowing it better makes that very difficult, as they learn mistakes they later have to unlearn.
I am always glad when people point out such mistakes, for this reason.