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Constant work makes the kilo walk the Planck

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Re: Confused

It's simple:

A Kilobyte is 1024 bytes, unless you're talking about network speed ( where 1 Kbps is 1000 bits per second) or hard drive capacity (1 Megabyte = some random value close to, but probably under, 1 million bytes) .

A Kibibyte is...no.

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