The imaginary kilobyte

14 March 2008 · 0 comments

Courtesy of Colin Jackson, a link to a hilarious xkcd comic: Kilobyte. Colin says: WHAT EXACTLY IS A KILOBYTE? (OR A MEGABYTE, OR A GIGABYTE) There is a lot of confusion about this out there – some of it deliberate – as I said on the radio last week, but the usual definition is 2^10 [...]

Courtesy of Colin Jackson, a link to a hilarious xkcd comic: Kilobyte. Colin says:

WHAT EXACTLY IS A KILOBYTE? (OR A MEGABYTE, OR A GIGABYTE)

There is a lot of confusion about this out there – some of it deliberate – as I said on the radio last week, but the usual definition is 2^10 bytes, which is 1,024 bytes.  Here’s a cartoonist’s take on the whole thing – it’s funny.

[Via : it.gen.nz » What exactly is a kilobyte? (or a Megabyte, or a Gigabyte).]

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