Would you bet me $1000 a kilobyte had 1000 bytes? What if I said please?
My MEC 102 professor told me 3 years ago that there are 1024 bytes in a kilobyte. Wikipedia says so too, so it’s a fact.
1024 is 2^10. As discussed in class, computers use base 2 as their language. Since each “bit” of information comes in twos, information can only be written in powers of 2. Since 1024 is relatively close to 1000, they peg 1024 bytes to a kilobyte. Neat, huh.
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