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When computers and their language was designed, they created "binary" which is the language of 1010111010010001 that you see in advertistements, or reference in text books.

Binary is written in 8 characters. So every binary set you see will always be divisble by 8.

Now, those tiny 1's and 0's are called "bits" and since there are 8 bits to make one binary set, they called that set a "Byte". And since everything is still divisble by 8, one kilobyte is 1024 bytes.

ie.

8

16

32

64

128

256

512

1024

As you can see the numbers are simply doubled. you see these numbers frequently when purchasing flash drives, harddrives, etc.

::BIG EVIL COMPANIES::

Like to steal your money and give you less than what you paid for.

Most companies will define a gigabyte as 1,000,000,000 (1 bil) bytes. That's 73,741,824 bytes less than the real total which means a gigabyte flash drive is actually 954mb, instead of 1024. That's 70mb LESS!!!

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it's rounded off, 1kb represents 1.024kb. but i guess nobody cares about 24b. since that would be able to store about half of my answer.

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Because - computers work on the binary number system. 1024 is the nearest binary number to 1000 (kilo).

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