kbits, kBytes, Mbits, MBytes is a pure poor usage of the
metric system to something that has nothing to do with.

It is the same to say "hundred bits" refering to 128 bits,
or something worse.

If we don't find a new denomination for those quantities,
we will be doomed forever.

Probably in the year 2300, some people will be blaming us
about this confusion we did not fixed from the start,
almost something like the "thousand million = billion"
and imperial vs metric system...

We have this ability to create confusion and think that
somebody someday will fix it... this somebody is just us,
and this someday is just today.

Binary quantification is just 2^n and that's it.
You couldn't say 2^k, 2^M, 2^T, but you can say
kilo in decimal it means 10^k, Mega is 10^M.

So, first, the expression kbit is wrong, it doesn't fit
in any aspect, except if you are saying 1000 bits.

I don't see any problem to understand  2^10 as 1024 bits,
or 2^20 as 1048576 bits...

Even a child would understand that a memory of 2^25 bytes
is bigger than other with 2^24 bytes.  That same child
will understand that doubling size means square gain,
than it wouldn't be 2^25 but a jump from 2^24 to 2^26.

Now, how you explain it in plain kilos, Megas...terrible.

It is so much easier to see 1048576/2 as 2^(20/2), it
makes much more sense about the digital point of view
and any programming routine.

I am sorry for the ignorance, but a little bit of study
is necessary to deal with electronics or computers, and
understand those numbers is at least pre-qualifying to
be able to work in this area.

I don't expect any grandmother with her 86 years old to
be able to understand what means this, but for sure she
would not understand what means her computer has 16MB
either...

Ok, for those who want to keep playing the wrong game,
tell me, what will be called a memory with 2^60 bytes?
How long do you think it will take to have this memory
at the market? 5, 10 years? Are we ready for the
strange new name?
Isn't easy to say 2^60? what's wrong with that?

Which the following is easier to understand?

1) Which is bigger?   2^36 or 2^37
2) Which is bigger?   6871947674 or 13743895348
start to count digits at the numbers above...
how would you do it? counting two by two digits,
or three by three...are you sure you didn't skip one?

If you think the second is easier, get out of here.

Ok, you can say, it is easy, it is 6.8Giga!!!
and what you do with the 71947674 bytes? trash?

By the way, the bigger is the 13.745895348 GigaSomething

Wagner.