– why are there 1024 megabytes in a gigabyte? Why didn’t they make it an even 1000?

Question

– why are there 1024 megabytes in a gigabyte? Why didn’t they make it an even 1000?

In: Technology

Answer 1

The hardest thing to wrap your head around here is that there is nothing at all special or “even” about powers of 10 (10, 100, 1000, etc.) *except that* humans have 10 fingers.

Computers have 2 fingers.