– 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

Computers work in binary. 10000000000 (1024) is a nice number in binary, 1111101000 (1000) isn’t.