The usual 'binary' scale goes like this: 1 kB = 1024 B, 1 MB = 1024 * 1024 B, 1 GB = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 B, etc. which may be at odds with SI but at least it's s

The usual 'binary' scale goes like this: 1 kB = 1024 B, 1 MB = 1024 * 1024 B, 1 GB = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 B, etc. which may be at odds with SI but at least it's self-consistent. The page you've quoted seems to be suggesting that 1 KB = 1024 B, 1 MB = 1024 * 1024 B, and 1 GB = 1000 * 1024 * 1024 B. That seems pretty absurd to me, but maybe they're just taking a page from the book of the "1.44 MB" floppy disks which actually hold 1000 * 1024 B.