Why is the Kilobyte sometimes defined as 1000 Bytes when it has

>>62290731
It's because 1024 was too difficult for stupid faggots to work out in their heads.

>>62290731
The jews

>>62290731
kilo is the prefix for one thousand

Kilo is 1000 regarding every other unit, so to standardize stuff it makes sense for a Kilobyte to be 1000 Byte as well.

Kibi was instead invented for binary kilo as 1024.

>>62290731
Give it up. You can keep using your retard foot-pounds fahrenheit, but this is a war you've already lost.

>>62290840
Kibi never caught on

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>>62290731
>the si prefixes were invented by storage manufacturers

>>62290936
Kibi caught on. We work in kibi/mibi at my university and I read it a lot in books.
I think it makes sense in an academic setting where people actually know what the fuck binary is. Who cares if normies use kilo/mega instead of kibi/mibi? The people who need it use it.

>>62290731
pretty sure 1000 is used for networking where everything is a stream since it's easier, but 1024 when used for storage since that's how things are stored on disks, etc.

You could have googled it OP

>>62290947
>>62290924
Computer storage is measured in base 2, so the typical SI prefixes don't make any sense in this context

>>62290731
Microsoft changed the standard cuz of how windows worked, hence why your 1TB hard drive won't show up as 1TB exactly, it's kind of jewery, but technically you're still getting the advertised 1tb if 1tb is 1000gb and not 1024gb which is what windows will use to calculate it

oh look, this thread again.