Kilobyte

1000 bytes. Unfortunately, the term is sometimes also used to mean bytes. However, this usage is deprecated, and the term kibibyte is preferred for 1024 bytes.

See also

Byte, Kibibyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte

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References

National Institute of Standards. "Prefixes for Binary Multiples." http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Kilobyte." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Kilobyte.html

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