A kilobyte is ~2^13 bits, but each bit is a power of 2 in regards to "things you can do." So it's more like 2^2^13. Technically a kilobyte is 1000 bytes exact

A kilobyte is ~2^13 bits, but each bit is a power of 2 in regards to "things you can do." So it's more like 2^2^13. Technically a kilobyte is 1000 bytes exactly, so I'm not sure why the title says 2^1024 rather than 2^8000, which is the actual number of states in a kilobyte.