text: how many kb's are in a mb?   there are eight bits in a byte. one byte is a character. there are 1024 byte in a kilobyte. there are 1024 kilobytes in megabyte. there are 1024 megabytes in a terrabyte. (detecting a pattern?)      the reason for this is because 1024 is the closest base two number to one thousand. the base two number go in this order:  2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096...