Kilobyte
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A kilobyte (kB) is a number used to measure storage space on computer hard drives or computer memory. A kilobyte originally meant 1024 bytes. Over time the meaning changed and today it is often used to mean 1000 bytes. This created some confusion as a "kilo" normally means 1000.[1] The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) now defines a kilobyte as being 1000 bytes.[2] According to the IEC, the correct name for 1,024 bytes is a kibibyte.[1] This naming convention, however, never really caught on.[3]
One thousand kilobytes make one megabyte.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 World Wide Words: Kibibyte. worldwidewords.org (2011). Retrieved 7 May 2011.
- ↑ Kilobyte - KB. computerhope.com (2011). Retrieved 7 May 2011.
- ↑ Kibibyte (in en-US). Techopedia (2012-05-28). Retrieved 2023-07-14.
