Board Thread:Off-Topic/@comment-4353179-20150317002649/@comment-9531161-20150330181333

No, even in the modern day it's 1024. I just put "historical" because we picked it a while ago and stuck with it. Computers work in multiples of 2, and so in order to make things easy on the computer, a kilobyte is 2^10 or 1024.

Seriously, please Google "kilobyte size". Or look at a file on your computer that's 1KB (or 4) and see how many actual bytes it is. For instance, a 4KB file is 4096 bytes.

Please, I know this is a contest, but we don't need to "contest" the size of a kilobyte. As programmers, there should be no question about how big a kilobyte is.

http://www.whatsabyte.com/P1/byteconverter.htm

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/chspace.htm

http://myrepono.com/faq/4

http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/calculate/