Comment on Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes
Lmaydev@programming.dev 1 year agoIn terms of storage 1000 and 1024 take the same amount of bytes. So from a computer point of view 1024 makes a lot more sense.
It’s just a binary Vs decimal thing. 1000 is not nicely represented in binary the same 1024 isn’t in decimal.
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What? No. A terabyte in 1024 units is 8,796,093,022,208 bits. In 1000 units it’s 8,000,000,000,000 bits.
The difference is substantial with larger numbers.
Lmaydev@programming.dev 1 year ago
Both require the same amount of bits again