Why 1 mb is equal to 1024 kb while 1 kg is equal to 1000g?

Answer 1

you are completely right, but mathematical theory is not always true in practice: the difference of 24 you discovered is due to a small error that your computer experiences when it runs its activities. first of all, the 24 bytes more are arranged in 6 components of 4 bytes each: 24 = 6 x 4 then, all information is stored in blocks of 4 kb, so in each block you have a total of 24 x 4 = 96 bytes more. 96 = 100 - 4, and these 4 bytes less constitute a precise measure of the error your computer experiences whenever it handles one block of information: it lacks one 4 bytes component! nevertheless, 4 bytes over 4 kb is only 0.1%, so your calculations still can be considered pretty reliable. everybody hopes that in the future man will be able to produce artificial machines able to do perfect calculations, but up to now it has not yet been possible. so: continue investigating!

Answer 2

Computers operate in binary, which means everything has to be in powers of 2. 1000 grams is 1 kilogram, but in a computer the nearest thing to 1000 is 1024. So kilobyte is a shorthand for this annotation.

Answer 3

something to do with binary im not completely sure

Answer 4

It's because bits (the smallest increment of computational data are stored 8 at a time, 1024 just happens to be a product of the 8 bit portions being multiplied.

Answer 5

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