– why are there 1024 megabytes in a gigabyte? Why didn’t they make it an even 1000?
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Computers are, at base, a bunch of switches that can be on or off.
If you have one switch you have two options 0 (closed) or 1 (open).
If you have two switches you have four (00, 01, 10, 11).
As such, powers of 2 come up a lot and 2^10 = 1024.
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