"Close enough" isn't good enough apparently. Our starting point is that a kilobyte is 1000 bytes, but then people say "that's not close enough to 1024, which i

"Close enough" isn't good enough apparently. Our starting point is that a kilobyte is 1000 bytes, but then people say "that's not close enough to 1024, which is a power of 2", and so we redefine the word "kilobyte" to mean 1024, etc. Then I buy a device with a gigabyte and it doesn't have 1,000,000,000 bytes, and it doesn't have exactly 1,073,741,824 (2^30) bytes either, it has some other random number. So we started with Système International units and a common understanding of what they mean. Computer people said, "that's not close enough, let's redefine standardized words so they will be exact", and then they use those redefined words in an inexact way. And for the sane normie people, a kilobyte is still 1000 bytes.