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

Question

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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Answer 1

2^13. It’s a convention used by Windows to use base 2 to describe the size instead of the more widely accepted base 10 system. For example, by this definition, a kilobyte is 2^10 bytes or 1024.