Kilobyte

1000 bytes. Unfortunately, the term is sometimes also used to mean 👁 2^(10)=1024
bytes. However, this usage is deprecated, and the term kibibyte is preferred for 1024 bytes.

See also

Byte, Kibibyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte

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References

National Institute of Standards. "Prefixes for Binary Multiples." http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Kilobyte." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Kilobyte.html

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