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bytes, or bits), computer professionals also started using the long-established metric system prefixes "kilo", "mega", "giga", etc., defined to be powers of 10, to mean instead the nearest powers of two; namely, 2¹⁰ = 1024, 2²⁰ = 1024², 2³⁰ = 1024³, etc. The corresponding metric prefix symbols ("k", "M", "G", etc.) were used with the same binary meanings. The symbol for 2¹⁰ = 1024 could be written either in lower case ("k") or in uppercase ("K"). The latter was often used intentionally

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