What is the abbreviation for kilobyte?
"kilobyte" is abbreviated in a number of ways: KB, kB, K and Kbyte.Lowercase "k" often implies the standard SI prefix of kilo-, which means 1,000 bytes. This is the way it's used in scientific or engineering contexts, disk media, networking, etc.Uppercase "K" often implies that the unit refers to 1,024 bytes, a power of 2, used in measuring memory, etc. This is officially wrong, and should be written "KiB" instead.It is sometimes abbreviated with a lowercase b ("kb"), but this is discouraged, because it is ambiguous with kilobit. It's recommended to abbreviate "byte" as "B" and "bit" as "bit" (which is already an abbreviation for "binary digit" anyway.)"1 kB" = 1000 bytes"1 KB" = 1024 bytes (probably)"1 KiB" = 1024 bytes (definitely)"1 kbit" = 1000 bits