It's all about twos, lots of themYour computer counts bytes in powers of two: 1 KiB = 1024 bytes because 1024 = 210.
People (and sneaky HDD makers) count in powers of ten: 1 KB* = 103.
Don't worry about the 0.3... thing, most people have trouble with that. My solution is to just not think too hard about it.
*I don't know why they use a capital k, it flies in the face of normal SI prefixes, but the i in KiB is there so you know which base (2 or 10) you're dealing with.
(People (and sneaky HDD makers) count in powers of ten: 1 KB* = 103.
Don't worry about the 0.3... thing, most people have trouble with that. My solution is to just not think too hard about it.
*I don't know why they use a capital k, it flies in the face of normal SI prefixes, but the i in KiB is there so you know which base (2 or 10) you're dealing with.
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