– why are there 1024 megabytes in a gigabyte? Why didn’t they make it an even 1000?
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There’s actually something called a Gibibyte (GiB).
A gibibyte and a gigabyte are sometimes used as synonyms, though technically they do not describe the same amount of capacity. They are close in size, however. A gibibyte is equal to 230 or 1,073,741,824 bytes. A gigabyte is equal to 109 or 1,000,000,000 bytes. One gibibyte equals 1.074 gigabytes. That’s a 7% difference.
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