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In December 1998, an international standards organization attempted to address these dual definitions of the conventional prefixes by proposing unique binary prefixes and prefix symbols to denote multiples of 1024, such as “kibibyte (KiB)”, which exclusively denotes 210 or 1024 bytes. Had this proposal been widely and consistently adopted, it would have liberated the standard unit prefixes to unambiguously refer only to their strict decimal definitions wherein kilobyte would be understood to represent only 1000 bytes. However, in the over that have since elapsed, the proposal has seen little adoption by the computer industry.
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