– why are there 1024 megabytes in a gigabyte? Why didn’t they make it an even 1000?
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True geek answer – there really are 1,000,000,000 bytes or 1,000 megabytes in a gigabyte. At least there are these days. The older use of a base-2 binary that resulted in 1,024 megabytes in a gigabyte was replaced years ago by the term gibibyte. There are 1,024 mebibytes in a gibibyte.
The 1,024 thing is like others have already replied so no need for me to repeat it.
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