It’s KibiByte

The unit used to measure the size of the binary data in the information technology world is Bit,Byte,KiloByte, MegaByte,etc.,

The actual measurement has a binary [bi] inbetween to define it belongs to the IT world. But for the convenience of us we are using the words commonly used in the decimal world.

Binary
Value FOLDOC IEC
10241 K kilo Ki kibi
10242 M mega Mi mebi
10243 G giga Gi gibi
10244 T tera Ti tebi
10245 P peta Pi pebi
10246 E exa Ei exbi
10247 Z zetta Zi zebi
10248 Y yotta Yi yobi
1 Kibibyte [1024] is 2.4% more than than 1 Kilobyte [1000] and the factor increases as the size increases.

Start using KibiByte

Cheers - Ranjith

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