– 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?

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Answer 1

This is slightly not what was asked, but there are actually 1000 megabytes in a gigabyte. There are, however, 1024 mebibytes in a gibibyte, but the standard 1000x multiplier names are very often incorrectly used in place of those.