kibibyte
Informationexact by definition
One kibibyte: 1024 bytes, exactly — 2 to the tenth. The IEC defined the name in 1998 to separate the binary quantity from the decimal kilobyte, which is 1000 bytes.
| 1 | 1,024 |
Where the unit came from
Binary prefixes exist because memory is addressed in powers of two, so 1024 is the natural step and 1000 is not. The trouble began when the same prefixes were borrowed for storage, where nothing is naturally binary at all.
One kibibyte in every information unit
| 8,192 | bit (bit) | |
| 1,024 | byte (B) | |
| 8.192 | kilobit (kbit) | |
| 0.008192 | megabit (Mbit) | |
| 0.000008192 | gigabit (Gbit) | |
| 8.19200e-09 | terabit (Tbit) | |
| 1.024 | kilobyte (kB) | |
| 0.001024 | megabyte (MB) | |
| 0.000001024 | gigabyte (GB) | |
| 1.02400e-09 | terabyte (TB) | |
| 1 | kibibyte (KiB)this unit | |
| 0.000976563 | mebibyte (MiB) | |
| 9.53674e-07 | gibibyte (GiB) | |
| 9.31323e-10 | tebibyte (TiB) |
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