| Nutboy said: Actually, everyone who has said something about K is wrong. K is 2 in 10th (2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2) and is 1024. It is commonly misused on the internet as 1000, but its real meaning is 1024. |
that's only for computers, dude. Kilo is 1000, BYTE is a unit of storage consisting of 8 bits, bits have a value of either 1 or 0. since all computers work in binary, anything you add to it is going to work on that base 2 you were trying to describe, it moves up in scale of 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, etc. The reason Kilo is used is simply because many storages need to use a certain amount of that 1024 for error checking adn basic drive information. hence the usable amount of storage comes out often closer to 1000, and there isn't really any abrriviation for 1024, so KB, is close enough
if anything, you're idea is totally backwards, as KB is actually incorrectly used, the real number is 1024, and the real meaning of K is 1000.
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