3. Kilobyte - KB
A kilobyte is a 1,000 bytes.
There is also a standard unit called the kibibyte which is 1024 bytes (2 to the power of 10) but people tend to only use the term kilobyte.
This would be equivalent to 1000 characters on the screen.
To help you visualise the storage capacity of a kilobyte, the text contained in the box below has exactly 1000 characters (not including spaces).
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Images usually take up more storage space than text characters. The image below will help you put storage sizes into context.
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Storage size = 7 kilobytes |
A simple, limited colour image will take up much less storage than a detailed, fully coloured, image.
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