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>>surpri+(OP)
> Why does 1000 still make more sense?

The author doesn’t actually answer their question, unless I missed something?

They go on to make a few more observations, and say finally only that the current different definitions are sometimes confusing, to non experts.

I don’t see much of an argument here for changing anything. Some non experts experience minor confusion about two things that are different, did I miss something bigger in this?

>>ineeda+Dz
Because it would be literally correct. Kilo means 1000, not 1024.

>>lukan+hK
"kilo" means what people take it to mean in any particular context. In computing, it is overwhelmingly power of two even today, and if you don't use it in this manner you have to clarify to be understood properly.

>>int_19+mM
Sure. I assume the ship has sailed already and I certainly won't die on that hill to change the meaning again, but still the word "kilo" literally means 1000 and it would have been more consistent to use it like this and for 1024 use a (slightly) different word.