Monday doesn’t seem to be a common day for a wedding, so why do we choose 10.24 as our wedding day. In the computer world, 1024 is a very special number. We just thought that would be pretty cool to celebrate our special moments on this special day.
A kilobyte (KB) is 1,024 bytes, not one thousand bytes as might be expected, because computers use binary (base two) math, instead of a decimal (base ten) system.
Computer storage and memory is often measured in megabytes (MB) and gigabytes (GB). A medium-sized novel contains about 1 MB of information. 1 MB is 1,024 kilobytes, or 1,048,576 (1024×1024) bytes, not one million bytes.