Kilobyte

A Kilobyte is a kilo-unit of bytes.

• AKA: KB, Kilo Byte.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Megabyte.
  • Terabyte.
  • Exabyte.
  • Gigabyte.
  • Petabyte.
• See: Bit, Terabytes per Second, Kilo-FLOP, 10^12, Binary Prefix, Kilobit, Kibibyte.

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References

2015

• (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/kilobyte Retrieved:2015-2-20.
  • The kilobyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. In the SI prefix kilo- means 1000 (10³); therefore one kilobyte is 1000 bytes. The unit of the kilobyte is kB. In some fields of information technology, the kilobyte has historically also referred to 1024 (2¹⁰) bytes. When referring to data transfer rates and hard disk drive storage size, "kilobyte" always means 1000 bytes. Random-access memory capacity, such as CPU cache measurements, are always stated in multiples of 1024 (2¹⁰) bytes, due to the binary addressing of memory.

    In the International System of Quantities, the kilobyte is 1000 bytes, while the kibibyte (symbol KiB) is 1024 bytes. The binary representation of 1024 bytes typically uses the symbol KB (uppercase K). The B has historically been often omitted.

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