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4 AristotlePagaltzis 1 1,000 [Byte]s, but commonly refers to 1,024 [Byte]s which is actually called a KibiByte. However, this distinction has not been adopted in practice; with very near certainty, the term KiloByte is always used to refer to 1,024 [Byte]s.
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4 AristotlePagaltzis 3 In speech, it's often cut down to "K", ie pronounced "kay".
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5 This is a very common unit. Many [BinaryExecutable]s, libraries, configuration files, images and so on range from somewhere between half a KiloByte to a few [MegaByte]s.
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7 See also KibiByte, MegaByte/MebiByte, GigaByte/GibiByte, TeraByte.