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nerdsniper
15 days ago
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1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?
We can, but we won't. At least not any time soon. For the foreseeable future, kilobyte will remain an ambiguous term, and kibibyte will very often not be used when someone is referring to 1024 bytes.
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