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simple rounding off
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Computers run on a binary system which is a series of 8, "I" & "O"'s. which is 1 bit. Therefore Hard Drives and RAM have always been a multiplication of 8. EG. 8,16,....512,1024. bits bytes kilobytes megabytes terabytes.
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Humans naturally work in multiples of ten because we have ten fingers. So 1000, three tens multiplied, is a natural number for humans. But computers naturally work in multiples of 2, the number of different values you can represent with one bit. So 1024, ten twos multiplied, is a natural number for computers.
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