I often find myself explaining the same things in real life and online, so I recently started writing technical blog posts.
This one is about why it was a mistake to call 1024 bytes a kilobyte. It’s about a 20min read so thank you very much in advance if you find the time to read it.
Feedback is very much welcome. Thank you.
Because computers work in bits. Each bit represents 2 values (0 or 1). It’s much easier to represent 1024, which is 2^10 (exactly 10 bits) instead of 1000 which isn’t a power of 2.