kilobyte (KB)

The designation kilobyte (KB) is mainly used in memory technology or referred to a time unit for the transmission of characters per second (KB/s). Since the byte refers to a power of two, 1 KB corresponds to a storage capacity of 2exp10 bytes and thus deviates from the decimal number 10exp3, for the prefixkilo. The exact value for 1 KB is 1,024 bytes.