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1 kilobyte consists of 1024 (or 210) bytes of information. The use of 210 bytes is due to the base 2 (radix 2) numbering system used by computers.

1 gigabyte consists of 1,073,741,824 (or 230) bytes of information.

1 gigabyte, therefore, contains 1,048,576 kilobytes.

However, these values are often given by computer and software companies to mean 1 kilobyte is 1000 bytes and 1 gigabyte is 1,000,000,000 bytes. This is due to the unfamiliarity of many people with the base 2 numbering system. This also gives an edge to advertisers who sometimes mix the meanings of the quantities.

For example one company could advertise a hard drive to have 1 gigabyte of space (meaning 230) where as another may say the same hard drive has 1.073 gigabytes space which would make their product appear to be superior.

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