Comment on Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes

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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.

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