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3. Kilobyte

A kilobyte is a unit of storage capacity. It can be written as kB or kbyte.

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.

This would be equivalent to 1024 characters on the screen.

To help you visualise the storage capacity of a kilobyte, the text contained in the box below has exactly 1024 characters.

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Images usually take up more storage space than text characters. The images below will help you put storage sizes into context.

dog
dog
Storage size = 7 kilobytes
Storage size = 33 kilobytes

So a simple, limited colour image as seen on the left will take up much less storage than the detailed image on the right.

Challenge see if you can find out one extra fact on this topic that we haven't already told you

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