COMPUTER HARDWARE COMPONENTS FUNCTIONS
EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL STORAGE DEVICES
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2024
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1024
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1000
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Detailed explanation-1: -Based on this, 1 kilobyte is equal to 1000 bytes. Its international symbol is kB. In computer technologies, a kilobyte is specified as 1024 (210). This is because the binary system is widely used in file management systems.
Detailed explanation-2: -Remember: Computers can only work with binary code. However computers do like the number 1024 because its binary code is 10000000000. That’s why there are 1024 Bytes in a KB, 1024 KB in a MB and so on…
Detailed explanation-3: -As the numbers get bigger we start to abbreviate them with k (kilo), m (mega), g (giga), t (tera). The closest base number to a thousand (kilo) is 1024, hence it was abbreviated to k, so 1024 bytes = 1kb.
Detailed explanation-4: -In practice, kilobyte is still commonly used to refer to 1024 bytes.
Detailed explanation-5: -1 kilobyte (KB) = 1024 bytes. 1 megabyte (MB) = 1024 kilobytes. 1 gigabyte (GB) = 1024 megabytes. 1 terabyte (TB) = 1024 gigabytes.