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Nope, it's kilobyte. The "other one" is disk-manufacturer-marketing-speak-kilobyte.

• dusted 4y ago
  Yes, you're exactly right, in the same way as kilometer is 1024 meters and the other one is just car-manufacturer-distance-per-fuel-unit-marketing-speak-kilometer.. Kilo means 1000, and meant it before computers were a thing.. We retrofitted 1024 onto it literally hundreds of years later.. because it was close enough, it got annoying to deal with, we fixed it, if only recently in 2008, but better late than never..
  • biztos 4y ago
    > it got annoying to deal with, we fixed it Well, you published a standard for it, but as long as the new words use Teletubby speak to try and prevent people from using them, since nobody is going to say “gibibibitibi” out loud on purpose and the standardizers surely knew this, you’re gonna just have to keep living with the ambiguity. Fixed, it ain’t.