【How-to】What is a group of 1024 bytes

For a long time, 1 Kilobyte=1024 bytes, 1 Megabyte = 1024 kilobytes, 1 Gigabyte = 1024 megabytes, and so on. The reason being the fact that it easier to do binary math when working with powers of two. However, the prefix “kilo” means 1000, and not 1024, and the same reasoning applies for “mega”, “giga”, etc.