A kibibyte (a contraction of kilo binary byte) is a unit of information or computer storage, commonly abbreviated KiB.
1 kibibyte = 210 bytes = 1 024 bytes
byte << kibibyte << mebibyte
The kibibyte is closely related to the kilobyte, which can be used either as a synonym for kibibyte or to refer to 103 bytes = 1 000 bytes (see binary prefix).
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