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Units of storage
3. Kilobyte - KB
A kilobyte is generally thought of as 1,000 bytes.
However, to be completely correct, it is actually 1,024 bytes which is 2 to the power of 10.
To help you visualise the storage capacity of a kilobyte, the text contained in the box below has just over a 1000 characters. It takes a kilobyte to store this amount of text.
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Images usually take up more storage space than text characters. The image below will help you put storage sizes into context.
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Storage size = 7 kilobytes |
This is a small image with little colour range and so only needs a few kilobytes of storage. A fully detailed, full colour image takes much more.
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