In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
KIBIBYTE
kilobyte, kibibyte, KB, kB, KiB
(noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 bytes
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
kibibyte (plural kibibytes)
(computing) Strictly, 210 (1,024) bytes, as opposed to a kilobyte.
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