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.

  • klisurovi4@midwest.social
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    11 months ago

    To add to that, computers are great with powers of 2 because they work with bits. Each bit represents 2 values (0 or 1). That’s why computers have an easier time represting 1024, which is 2^10 (10 bits) instead of 1000, which isn’t a power of 2