Kilobit (kbit)
A kilobit is 1000 bits. It appears mostly in telecommunications and in older memory-chip capacities.
Symbol: kbit
Quantity: amount of digital information
SI relation: 1 kbit = 1000 bit (exact)
Derivation: 1 kbit = 1000 bits (SI prefix kilo = 10³).
Exact: yes, by definition
Typical uses
- Telecom data quantities
- Small memory chips (e.g. 256 kbit EEPROM)
Convert kilobits to other units
| Conversion | 1 kbit equals | Reverse |
|---|---|---|
| kilobit to byte | 125 B | byte to kilobit |
| kilobit to kilobyte | 0.125 kB | kilobyte to kilobit |
| kilobit to megabyte | 0.000125 MB | megabyte to kilobit |
| kilobit to gigabyte | 1.25 × 10⁻⁷ GB | gigabyte to kilobit |
| kilobit to terabyte | 1.25 × 10⁻¹⁰ TB | terabyte to kilobit |
| kilobit to bit | 1000 bit | bit to kilobit |
| kilobit to megabit | 0.001 Mbit | megabit to kilobit |
| kilobit to kibibyte | 0.1220703125 KiB | kibibyte to kilobit |
| kilobit to mebibyte | 0.0001192092896 MiB | mebibyte to kilobit |
| kilobit to gibibyte | 1.164153218 × 10⁻⁷ GiB | gibibyte to kilobit |
| kilobit to gigabit | 0.000001 Gbit | gigabit to kilobit |
| kilobit to petabyte | 1.25 × 10⁻¹³ PB | petabyte to kilobit |
| kilobit to tebibyte | 1.136868377 × 10⁻¹⁰ TiB | tebibyte to kilobit |
Open the Data Storage Converter to convert any value between all units.
Sources
- The International System of Units (SI), 9th edition (SI Brochure), Bureau International des Poids et Mesures , Table 7 (SI prefixes); hertz, Table 4.
Last reviewed: . Factors are stored exactly and computed with 50-digit decimal arithmetic. See how we verify conversion factors.
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