Kilobit

The kilobit is 1000 (kilo-), as in SI, bits.  A bit is either 0 (off) or 1 (on). The kilobit is usually written as kbit or kb.  Kibibit is similar, except it has 1024 (power of two) bits instead of 1000.  They are sometimes confused.

 Related pages 
 Kilobyte (kB)
 Kibibyte (KiB or KB)
 Kibibit (Kib or Kb)
 Kilo-
 Bit
 SI

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Category:Units of information