What is a Kilobyte (KB)?

A kilobyte (KB) is a unit of digital information equal to 1,000 bytes (decimal) in SI convention.

Definition

Symbol

KB

Category

Data Storage

System

Digital

1 {unit} = {value} {otherUnit}

1 Kilobyte = 1000 Byte (B)

1 Kilobyte = 0.001 Megabyte (MB)

1 Kilobyte = 0.000001 Gigabyte (GB)

1 Kilobyte = 1e-9 Terabyte (TB)

1 Kilobyte = 1e-12 Petabyte (PB)

Common Uses

  • Small documents
  • Email text size
  • Configuration files

Kilobyte Conversions

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