Health Informatics Glossary
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Kilobyte - A
semi-ambiguous multiple of the unit byte.
Depending upon the context, a kilobyte is 1,000 bytes (IEEE and ISO
digital standards) or 1,024 bytes (memory circuits with a binary
architecture). As the variance is small, and as the international
electronic standards community has shown no discipline for sorting
out the binary v. digital distinction, the term "kilobyte" is
ambiguously employed in dissimilar contexts as if it refers to the
same quantity.
See
Byte,
IEEE,
ISO,
Megabyte
Knowledge Base - A
database purpose built for knowledge management. The two types of
knowledge bases are machine readable and human readable.
See
Database,
Expert System,
Inference Engine
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