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  • Kilo and mega prefixes have been used for far far longer than computers have been around and they mean 1000 and 1000000. It’s only in computing where these prefixes were corrupted because they were deemed “closed enough” and caused confusion because people expect the terminology they use everywhere else to also apply to their computer.