Great summarized, especially the “close enough” part. If you think about it this situation never would’ve happened if we would have based the majority of the computer designs on ternary instead of binary. https://zeta.one/kilobyte-is-1000-bytes/

1000 is technically correct. The best kind of correct 🙃 It’s hard to explain in a short sentence because the situation is a bit of a mess. If you have a few minutes and want to go down the rabbit hole you could check out this: https://zeta.one/kilobyte-is-1000-bytes/