I love these threads... reminds me of the good old days messing about with computers. :wink:
It certainly used to be 1024. As with most computer related matters, it's a binary thing...
...bingo - we can stop there.
Bits, bytes ("good", bad or ugly), yes/no, true/false, on/off, 1/0 (or is it 0/1)?
Anyone remember the delights of binary coded decimal? If you do, keep it to yourself. :wink:
P.S. Did you know that once upon a time there were two definitions of billion? When I was a lad, people over here still talked of a billion as a million million as opposed to a thousand million.
Back in those days, I did mix with quite a few ignorant peasants (it's a family tradition), but I'm pretty sure there was a British billion as opposed to an American one.
Most of the other imperial (that's non-metric rather than empire-related) differences aren't quite so severe, thankfully. :)