One kilobyte is equal to how many bytes?

A kilobyte is a unit of measure used to quantify computer memory or storage capacity in a computer, identified by kb. In most computer architectures the smallest storage is known as a binary digit or a bit represented by a 0 or a 1. Next highest is a byte which consists of 8 bits, or what it takes to make a letter or number. A kilobyte is 1024 bytes. For example if you saw a file on your computer which contained 20kb, it would contain 20,480 bytes or 20,480 characters.

Next comes the megabyte (1024 kilobytes, very little designated mb), followed by a gigabyte (1024 megabytes, designated GB) and finally terabyte (1024 gigabytes, designated tb). Although the designations go on (petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte) they have very little meaning for the average computer user.