Powers of two — the binary ladder

The numbers a machine counts by, sealed: 2^10 = 1024 (the binary 'kilo'), 2^16 = 65,536 (a 16-bit word's range), 2^30 = 1,073,741,824 (one GiB): https://narrowhighway.com/s/19df661045aef6fa486083cfbff5ea7c5df1c30ef59dd3d1683a849b789b6d5a . Every memory size, color depth, and address space is a rung on this ladder — the reason a 'kilobyte' is 1024 and a 4 GB stick is really 2^32 bytes. The quartz watch (2^15) and the gibibyte (2^30) are the same ladder, one in time and one in space.