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Kilo (English)

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Definition (keystage 3)

Prefix meaning a thousand. The symbol k is used, for instance one km is a thousand metres.
In a computing context, when we are measuring a number of bytes, kilo is used to mean 2¹⁰, i.e. 1024.

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