The answer is supposedly 1000 but the correct answer is actually 1024. Kilobyte The kilobyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The International System of Units (SI) defines the prefix kilo as 1000 (103); per this definition, one kilobyte is 1000 bytes. The intern…

I’ve updated the question to: “According to the International System of Units, how many bytes are in a kilobyte of RAM?”

[image] #1482 and #392 Have incorrect answers Open Trivia DB Question: How many kilobytes in one gigabyte? (ID 1482) Correct answer is stated as 1048576 but should be 1000000! Question: How many bytes are in a kilobyte of RAM? (ID 392) Correct answer is stated as 1024 b…

[image] #1482 and #392 Have incorrect answers Open Trivia DB After doing more research, as far as I can tell, Kilobytes and Gigabytes are 1000, and 1000000 respectively according to NIST. A new prefix, kibi and gibi were created for 1024 and 1048576 respective…

i see that there is a big problem that the majority of people is taught that kilobyte is 1024 as a fact even though in the current day it is not classed as 1024 but 1000, so this question is confusing for lots of people, there are probably a few questions like these that will pop up guess we will ha…

Most people would have similar problems differentiating between URI, URN and URL. (To be fair, I also have to look it up every time I wanna be sure to do it correctly.) I’d suggest rephrasing these kinds of questions to explicitly refer to the technically correct answer, something like “according to…

I think even better would be to just say “in decimal form” so they don’t think of the binary version.

Or maybe rework the whole question into one about Kibibytes. If the player knows that unit, there’s no confusion left.

I still find this whole topic silly because as far as I know, objectively a kilobyte is and will always be 1024 bytes. My IT teacher back in the days taught me that they only started saying “it’s actually 1000 bytes” for the dummies who can’t remember the 1024 and are like “UHH BUT IT’S KILO HURR D…

I’d prefer macdguys method of saying “in decimal form” (or binary form if the answer is 1024), as kibibytes is something that never really managed to… push through. I’d definitely prefer “in binary form” though, as the decimal form has nothing to do with IT anymore but with mathematics.

[image] chocolateaddict: dummies who can’t remember the 1024 and are like “UHH BUT IT’S KILO HURR DURR”, lol Because having the otherwise universal prefix for “thousand” stand for a different value in a single specific case makes a lot of sense. In a metric system based on universal, easily r…

[image] chocolateaddict: I still find this whole topic silly because as far as I know, objectively a kilobyte is and will always be 1024 bytes. [image] chocolateaddict: I’ll always say that a kilobyte is 1024 bytes and nothing will change that. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes: It’s one t…

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Question #392 is wrong

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macdguy July 23, 2018, 5:59pm 3