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  • No, the powers of 1024 are called “Kibibyte (KiB)”, " Mebibyte (MiB) and “Gibibyte (GiB)” (those are called “binary prefixes”). Gigabyte is 1000^3. This is why hard drive manufacturers use Gb instead of Gib, because it lets them sell a smaller drive with the same number before the prefix (2 TB < 2 TiB).
    Prior to 1998, it was ambiguous, and some usages of the metric prefixes to denote 1024^n persist to this day (hello Windows). But nowadays any usage of 1024^n should absolutely use the binary prefixes.