Accordingly, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology requires that SI Binary prefixes be used only in the decimal sense: kilobyte and megabyte denote one thousand bytes and one million bytes respectively, while new terms such as kibibyte, mebibyte, and gibibyte, having the symbols KiB, MiB, and GiB, denote 1024 bytes, 1 bytes, and 1 bytes, respectively.
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