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That it did. I can assure you that in the 80's when I was first learning about computers no one thought that a kilobyte was 1,000 vs 1,024... that said right now, without looking it up I cannot tell you how much a megabyte is so perhaps it was a bad idea to begin with.

Edit: Looks like it's 1,048,576




> without looking it up I cannot tell you how much a megabyte is

You just need to remember that you need to multiple by 1,024 instead of 1,000.

So 1 kilobyte is 1,024 bytes, 1 megabyte is 1,024 kilobytes so 1,024x1,024 = 1,048,576 bytes, 1 gigabyte is 1,024 megabytes, etc.


Depends. You know how floppy discs were advertised to be 1.44 MB? That was calculated as 1000*1024 bytes


It was double the previous 720 KB ones, so 1,440 KB, which they wrongly advertised as 1.44 MB, indeed. But that's irrelevant to my previous comment.


Yes, but if you can't recall the number by heart it's not really that useful as a number.




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