tl;dr: either 1000 bytes or 1024 bytes, but there’s no consensus.
As best I can tell, there is no broad consensus on how large a kilobyte is. Some say that a kilobyte is 1000 bytes while others say it’s 1024 bytes. Others are ambiguous.
This also means that the industry does not agree on the size of megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, and so on.
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