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

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

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Computers work in binary or base 2 not decimal (base 10). 1024 is a power of 2 1000 is not. So in the case of computers or any base 2 system, 1024 is the even number and 1000 is the oddball

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