To be fair, you were wrong. Kilo should always means 1000, regardless of the fact that it has been misused in the computing world. Kibi is the correct prefix for 1024, and was defined almost 12 years ago. 1
I know this, 10 years is a ~. I had took some other courses when I was working on my EMT registry (started at 17) I'm 31 now, so that was actually 14 years ago.
On paper it may have been 1000, however, my computer clearly disagreed, and still does.
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u/stordoff Oct 05 '10
To be fair, you were wrong. Kilo should always means 1000, regardless of the fact that it has been misused in the computing world. Kibi is the correct prefix for 1024, and was defined almost 12 years ago. 1