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Why are there decimal and binary kilobytes?

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Why are there decimal and binary kilobytes?

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In general, hard drive manufacturers use the decimal version, where 1 megabyte = 106 bytes, and everyone else uses the binary version, where 1 megabyte = 220 bytes. See this PCGuide article for a thorough explanation.

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