I find it funny how so many people still do not know that 1 kilobyte is just 1000 bytes and not 1024 bytes!

That's a KibiByte!

Guys, kilo means 10^3, always! Always!

say this to Microsoft.

Nobody uses Kibi IRL. 1 kB = 1024 bytes, that's how it has always been. Except among vendors, and when someone passes off 1 kB as 1000 bytes, you know he's up to no good - excellent test.

@Fast-Nop actually KiB is KibiByte only! It's always been like this, just that most people have been oblivious of that!

I thought that convention was that capital K (eg KB) denoted 1024, but lower k (eg kB) was 1000.

So, what's a megabyte then? And how do we distinguish different interpretations at that level?

@platypus MB. Or Men in Black, which again nobody uses. ^^

I use Chrome. KB and MB are just rounding errors in my world. A gig here...a gig there...Chrome doesn't worry about details.

@BugsBuggy "always" = for the last 20 years. And even so, unfortunately that's only true in the scientific community. News and manufacturers are always messing up KB, KiB and similar.

@platypus or hunderds of gigabytes in current hard drive sizes

@BugsBuggy no, it wasn't always like this...

Tell that to my professor

There's the argument that byte is not an SI-unit in the first place, so k doesn't have to mean kilo.

At least in the embedded systems world, all the programmers I know work with kilobytes, the 1024 one.

I actually haven't met many people who knew that "kibi" was a thing (also, it sounds fucking horrible).

My professor in school taught us its 1024 for KB and i had never heard of the term kibibyte

@BugsBuggy not since always
It was in 1998

@oudalally but now ambiguity increased

@Fast-Nop I do

What the. Did you just edit the wiki bugs.

You could've tortured me and I would've genuinely told you iron hard that

1KibiByte ... 1000 Byte
and that
1KiloByte ... 1024 Byte

I've been in an IT school for 5 years. I was in strong belief thats how it was the entire time.

😐

@lucaspar I'm just 23, so 20 years is almost always for me :P

@beggarboy Kilo is the international standard for 10^3.
Kibi is 2^10 (1024) for measuring information.

@malphas even today!
Take the exact size of HDD in bytes its 1024 Bytes= KB and then 1000 multiples 😖

@lucaspar Since I grew up with the lovely metric system, I am aware. But I exclusively drew a border around IT Stuff since all the the numbers there are basing off Base 2.

@Fast-Nop @Fast-Nop only when denoting memory (ram and cache) has kilo is changed by default to 1024. In storage it has always been 1000 with sometimes the exception of flash storage.
As a scientific minded person I hate the extra 24 bits. It's so inconsistent that even the hardware vendors screw up from tone to time (1.44MB diskette my ass)