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by ralusek 1438 days ago
A kilobyte is ~2^13 bits, but each bit is a power of 2 in regards to "things you can do."

So it's more like 2^2^13.

Technically a kilobyte is 1000 bytes exactly, so I'm not sure why the title says 2^1024 rather than 2^8000, which is the actual number of states in a kilobyte.

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Lol, I was wondering how long I'd have to scroll to find an accurate definition of kilobyte.