Editing Byte (section)

=== Modern standard definitions ===
The IEC adopted the IUPAC proposal and published the standard in January 1999.<ref>NIST "Prefixes for binary multiples" https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180114113918/https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html |date=2018-01-14 }}</ref><ref>Amendment 2 to IEC International Standard IEC&nbsp;60027-2: Letter symbols to be used in electrical technology – Part 2: Telecommunications and electronics.</ref> The IEC prefixes are part of the [[IEC 80000-13|International System of Quantities]]. The IEC further specified that the kilobyte should only be used to refer to {{val|1,000}} bytes.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Barrow |first1=Bruce |title=A Lesson in Megabytes |website=IEEE |url=https://standards.ieee.org/reading/ieee/SB/Jan97/bearer_jan97.pdf |access-date=14 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051217152918/http://standards.ieee.org/reading/ieee/SB/Jan97/bearer_jan97.pdf |archive-date=17 December 2005 |page=5 |date=January 1997 |url-status=dead}}</ref>