Kibibit

Multiples of bitsvte
Decimal Value SI 1000 103 kbit kilobit 10002 106 Mbit megabit 10003 109 Gbit gigabit 10004 1012 Tbit terabit 10005 1015 Pbit petabit 10006 1018 Ebit exabit 10007 1021 Zbit zettabit 10008 1024 Ybit yottabit	Binary Value IEC JEDEC 1024 210 Kibit kibibit Kbit kilobit 10242 220 Mibit mebibit Mbit megabit 10243 230 Gibit gibibit Gbit gigabit 10244 240 Tibit tebibit - 10245 250 Pibit pebibit - 10246 260 Eibit exbibit - 10247 270 Zibit zebibit - 10248 280 Yibit yobibit -
See also Nibble Byte Orders of magnitude of data

The kibibit is a multiple of the bit, a unit of digital information storage, using the standard binary prefix kibi, which has the symbol Ki, meaning 2¹⁰.^[1][2] The unit symbol of the kibibit is Kibit.

1 kibibit = 2¹⁰ bits = 1,024 bits^[3]

The kibibit has existed since 1998 and is closely related to the kilobit, which is equal to 10³ bits = 1,000 bits. However, a kibibit is 1024 bits. Likewise, a kibibyte is 1,024 bytes.

The binary prefixes form part of the International System of Quantities (ISQ).^[4]

See also

• Kibibyte

References

1. International Electrotechnical Commission, IEC 60027-2 (2000-11) Ed. 2.0
2. A.J. Thor (2000). "Prefixes for binary multiples". Metrologia. 37 (1): 81. doi:10.1088/0026-1394/37/1/12.
3. "Definitions of the SI units: The binary prefixes". physics.nist.gov.
4. "JCGM 200:2008 - English - 1. Quantities and units". www.iso.org.

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