particularly in reference to random-access memory capacity, kilobyte instead often refers to 1024 (2¹⁰) bytes. This arises from the prevalence of sizes that are powers of two in modern digital memory architectures, coupled with the coincidence that 2¹⁰ differs from 10³ by less than 2.5%.

The kibibyte is defined as 1024 bytes, avoiding the ambiguity issues of the kilobyte.

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