Yeah so I realize that at some point manufacturers of hard drives started to cheat and claim 10gb hard drives that were actually a bit less, using a 1000kb megabyte as their rationale, but that's just the marketing team engaging in false advertising. There's no reason to dignify such deception by inventing new words. They just lied. A mb is 1024 kbytes and a gb is 1024 mb. Sorry thats just how the math works out. A 16 kb address space can access 64kb or 65536 unique memory locations.

ITT: People who will vehemently talk about how everyone should convert to SI metric, except when it pertains to their personal favorite unit.

I remember when they invented kibibytes and mibibytes and shaking my head and being like they have forever destroyed the meaning of words and things will be off by 2% forever. And is has been.

Just to show that disinformation exists in every field.

This is dumbing down of the science and I know I will be downvoted for stating that fact.

... And a hacker is precisely a cyber-criminal.

Now if you ask a LLM, a kilobyte is usually 1000 bytes, but can be anything between 970 and 1030...

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One thing that annoys me is:

Why don’t kilobyte continue to mean 1024 and introduce kilodebyte to mean 1000. Byte, to me implies a binary number system, and if you want to introduce a new nomenclature to reduce confusion, give the new one a new name and let the older of more prevalent one in its domain keep the old one…