1 Kibibyte
How many bytes is 1 kilobyte? It is 1024 or 1000? It’s kind of ambiguous, isn’t it?
Nope, this problem was solved in 1998.
1 kilobyte is 1000 bytes. That’s 103.
1 kibibyte is 1024 bytes. that’s 210.
And how do you abbreviate it?
1 kilobyte = 1 KB
1 kibibyte = 1 KiB
Similarly, we’ve got
megabyte (MB) 10^6 | mebibyte (MiB) 2^20
gigabyte (GB) 10^9 | gibibyte (GiB) 2^30
terabyte (TB) 10^12 | tebibyte (TiB) 2^40
petabyte (PB) 10^15 | pebibyte (PiB) 2^50
This actually makes good sense. I’ll try to use it from now on.
And we all know…
mega
giga
tera
peta
exa
zetta
yotta…
But what comes next? What is the prefix for 1027? There is a move to make it…. you’re gonna love this…
hella