2007-02-01 10:18:39 · 5 answers · asked by New_Town_Karachi_Pakistan 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
It can be defined as either ... depends in which context.
Kilobyte (binary) KB 1024 bytes
Kilobyte (decimal) KB 1000 bytes
In the context of storage-memory and address-space sizes, the binary definition of 1,024 bytes is occasionally used although this usage is ambiguous.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/kilobit...
regards,
Philip T
2007-02-01 10:24:37 · answer #1 · answered by Philip T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because everything on computers is made in binary code ( the logical 1 and 0 are just high and low voltages ) so ( not to go into details ), you have those two values, and then calculating 2*2 you get 4, 4*2=8, 8*2=16, 16*2=32, 32*2=64, 64*2=128, 128*2= 256. 256*2=512, 512*2= 1024...
And then you have bitss, bytes, kilobytes, megabytes and so on....
This quite the simplified version but I think you get the point!
P.S. sorry for my bad english
2007-02-01 18:30:00 · answer #2 · answered by justme 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a kilobyte is 1024 bytes because there is a pattern that is followed.
a byte is 8 bits so 2 bytes is 16 bits, which is a multiple of 8, then 32, 64, 128, 256, 512 and finally 1024.
2007-02-01 18:24:54 · answer #3 · answered by Smithers 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because computers use binary, and 1024 is a power of 2 (2^10) and 1000 is a power of 10, not 2.
2007-02-01 18:24:23 · answer #4 · answered by Rose D 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
bcuz in computers data is stored in a binary format of 0's and 1's.
so any storage is measured in powers of 2, thus 2^10 is 1024.
2007-02-01 18:29:33 · answer #5 · answered by MAB 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋