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Is there any measurement system according to which 1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes?
I learned about gibibytes, started digging and found out that 1 kilobyte = 10 ^ 3 = 1000 bytes.
But 1024 bytes = 1 kibibyte.
At school, at university and in many articles, words associated with a byte (kilobyte, megabyte, etc.) are operated as 2 to a certain extent, although according to SI this is incorrect. Is everyone who writes like this just illiterate people, or is there some kind of unit/measurement system according to which 1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes, not 1000 bytes?
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In the Russian Federation, there are 24 bytes more in a kilobyte than anywhere else. Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of 2009.
There is no such system. It would be correct to say "kibibyte", "mebibyte", "gibibyte" and so on. But out of habit, everyone says "kilo-", "mega-", "giga-". Except manufacturers of hard drives and other drives. They use these terms correctly.
So yes, purely formally, those who mean 1024 bytes by a kilobyte are illiterate people.
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