Why does 8gb of ram display like 8192mb and not 8000mb?

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In informatics parts there’s always a little bit more when talking about GB or similars. Why it’s like that?

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Because 1 GB is not 1000 MB. It’s 1024 MB.

This is because 1024 is a power of 2, which is convenient for binary. 1000 is not a power of 2.

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