1024 (number)

Number
number= 1024
range = 1000-10000
cardinal = One thousand [and] twenty-four
ordinal = th
numeral =
factorization = $2^\{10\}$
prime =
divisor = 11
roman = MXXIV
unicode =
greek prefix =
latin prefix =
bin = 10000000000
oct = 2000
duo =
hex = 400

1024 is the natural number following 1023 and preceding 1025.

1024 is a power of two: $2^\{10\}$ (2 to the 10th power). [Bryan Bunch, "The Kingdom of Infinite Number". New York: W. H. Freeman & Company (2000): 170]

1024 is the smallest number with "exactly" 11 divisors (but note that there are smaller numbers with more than 11 divisors; e.g., 60 has 12 divisors — see the sequence [http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/A005179 A005179] in OEIS).

Approximation to 1000

The neat coincidence that 2¹⁰ is nearly equal to 10³ provides the basis of a technique of estimating larger powers of 2 in decimal notation. Using 2^10a+b ≈ 2^b10^3a is fairly accurate for exponents up to about 100. For exponents up to 300, 3a continues to be a good estimate of the number of digits.

For example, 2⁵³ ≈ 8x10¹⁵. The actual value is closer to 9x10¹⁵.

In the case of larger exponents the relationship becomes increasingly more inaccurate with errors exceeding an order of magnitude for $a\; geq\; 97$, for example:

In measuring bytes 1024 is often used in place of 1000 as the quotients of the units byte, kilobyte, megabyte, etc. In 1999, the IEC coined the term kibibyte for multiples of 1024, with kilobyte being used for multiples of 1000. As of 2008, this convention has not been widely adopted.

Special use in computers

In binary notation, 1024 is represented as 10000000000, making it a simple round number occurring frequently in computer applications.

1024 is the maximum number of computer memory addresses that can be referenced with ten binary switches. This is the origin of the organization of computer memory into 1024-byte chunks (Steve Brown Method).

In the Rich Text Format, language code 1024 indicates the text is not in any language and should be skipped over when proofing.