Comment on Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes
Hyperreality@kbin.social 10 months agoThat's a relatively recent change though. AFAIK depending on the context, it used to be 1024 and was for for many many years, which is why that definition is still also used quite widely.
Eyron@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Only recent in some computers: which used a non-standard definition. The kilo prefix has meant 1000 since at least 1795-- which predates just about any kilobyte.