COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
MEMORY SYSTEMS
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Question
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A kilobyte is
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1024 bits
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1024 bytes
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Traditionally, 1 kilobyte is used to express 1024 bytes (210 B). The concept of metric kilos is used here because 1024 is close to 1000 for convenience. Today, this notation format is used in many places.
Detailed explanation-2: -A kilobyte is a multiple of the unit byte of digital information. The International System of Units (SI) depicts the prefix kilo as 1000 (103). So in Decimal SI (base 10), 1 Kilobyte is equivalent to 1000 bytes. On the other hand in Binary (base 2) system, 1 Kilobyte is equal to 1024 bytes.
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