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About these units
Nibble (nibble)
A nibble consists of 4 bits, exactly half of a byte. It is the smallest unit that can represent a single hexadecimal digit (0–F), which makes it essential in low-level data representation. Nibble operations arise in microcontroller design, bitwise arithmetic, encryption algorithms, and early computing architectures that manipulated data in 4-bit chunks. Although modern systems process much larger word sizes, nibbles remain conceptually important: digital logic circuits still group bits in fours for hexadecimal notation, instruction encoding, and debugging tasks. In many ways, the nibble serves as the bridge between binary and human-readable representations of digital information.
Kilobyte (10^3 bytes) (kB (10^3))
A decimal kilobyte equals 1,000 bytes, reflecting the SI prefix kilo = 10³. Storage device manufacturers standardize on this definition because it scales cleanly and simplifies marketing and specification. This creates a mismatch with binary kilobytes (1,024 bytes) historically used in RAM and file systems. As storage capacities grew, this discrepancy became increasingly noticeable, leading standards bodies to promote explicit binary prefixes (KiB, MiB) for clarity. Despite these efforts, decimal kilobytes remain dominant in contexts such as hard drives, flash memory packaging, and communication standards.