One kilobyte (kB) of information on a disk is exactly how many bytes?
Remember how I said in the rules that, on "Fat Chance" questions, the most obvious answer will almost always be the wrong answer?
Well, guess what? You are witnessing the other side of the "almost always" today. In the case of this question, the most obvious answer
is the correct answer and the so-called "real" answer is the forfeit. The correct answer is 1,000 bytes.
According to the International System of Quantities, made binding by the International Organization for Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission in 1999, memory cards have their capacities stated in terms of binary (powers of 2) but
disks follow the normal decimal multiples (powers of 10). One kilobyte on a memory card is 1,024 bytes, but one kilobyte on a
disk (which is what this question asked) is 1,000 bytes.
There is a term for 1,024 bytes of information on a disk. It's a kibibyte (KiB). I swear, I am not making that word up.
I know that a question like this is dirty pool, but I have to keep the game interesting and unpredictable in these final weeks.
Smiler and krox didn't fall for my double bluff, so they win their bets. Smiler has the biggest end-of-week score we've seen so far. That radically changes the overall standings. Bob J is still leading, but now it's only by about 73 points.
Week 9 Scores
smilergrogan - 8 + 12 + 40 + 160 + 220 (+ 4) = 444
ShamelessWeasel - 16 + 32 + 24 + 96 + 0 (+ 4) = 172
Bob Juch - 32 + 68 + 0 + 160 - 130 (+ 4) = 134
kroxquo - 4 + 0 + 16 + 48 + 49.64 (+ 4) = 121.64
themanintheseersuckersuit - 0 + 0 + 0 + 96 + 0 (+ 4) = 100
Bob78164 - 0 + 0 + 0 + 80 - 8 (+ 4) = 76
jarnon - 0 + 16 + 0 + 96 - 56 (+ 4) = 60
franktangredi - 0 + 20 + 0 + 32 + 0 (+ 4) = 56
Total Scores After Week 9
Bob Juch - 972.15
smilergrogan - 899.52
ShamelessWeasel - 738.69
franktangredi - 509.87
kroxquo - 401.22
Bob78164 - 361.59
jarnon - 299.77
themanintheseersuckersuit - 288.83
plasticene - 171.8
earendel - 162
MarleysGh0st - 31.8
christie1111 - 26.35
Appa23 - 21
Vandal - 5.2
silverscreenselect - 0