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philip1209

The label of the ordinate contains an error - kilobyte = byte * 1024, as opposed to byte / 1024

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No,

#bytes * (1 kilobyte)/(1024 bytes) = #kilobytes

or bytes/1024=kilobytes, for short.

Basically, it's a conversion factor, not a definition.

Might want to consider using the unambiguous term kibibyte instead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte

It is a tradeoff, it avoids the need to explain which definition of kilo is used, at the cost of using a far less common term.

Kibibyte doesn't make things clearer in this case. They aren't talking about whether the factor should be 1000 or 1024. The first poster said that kilobytes should be bytes * 1024. That is incorrect. The number of kilobytes is equal to the number of bytes / 1024, not bytes * 1024.

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