No, but that's a common mistake. 1024k is 1 mebibyte, where the 'bi' indicates use of binary math. Likewise on upward for gebi, tebi, pebi, exbi and, presumably, yebi and zebi.
You are incorrect. 1KByte has always been about 1024 bytes. Now, the larger disk drives have gotten, the more they want to use base 10 calculations where 1MB = 1,000,000 bytes. Yes, this is problematic as some (most?) operating systems still use mulitples of 1024 for megabyte calculations. THAT is 'incorrect' but it's a legacy annoyance, as is the historical usage of kilobyte = 1024.
For entertainment value, try using these: 2 bits: crumb, quad, quarter, tayste, tydbit 4 bits: nibble, nybble 5 bits: nickle, nyckle 10 bits: deckle 16 bits: plate, playte, chomp, chawmp (on a 32-bit machine) 18 bits: chomp, chawmp (on a 36-bit machine) 32 bits: dinner, dynner, gawble (on a 32-bit machine) 48 bits: gobble, gawble (under circumstances that remain obscure)
I once proposed the pseudobyte as equal to 1012 bytes. That's the arithmetic average of 1000 bits and 1024 bits, which should serve as a suitable compromise value thus satisfying both camps. It was summarily rejected as counterproductive by all that took me seriously.
It also gets ugly with speed abreviations, such as Bps, bps, Bytes/sec, bits/sec, etc. I won't go there and simply suggest that one should not abrev.
This is a modern invention, written by the committee that invented the camel, in order to 'deobfuscate' something that wasn't actually complicated in the first place.
I did, once, and only once. It was in a performance test report, where the use was appropriate. However, nobody could figure out what I was talking about or knew what a mibibyte was, so I revised it back to the common usage, tweaked the numbers, and never made that mistake again.
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