All is explained here in the origins of the greatest fuckup since the square wheel.
http://www.pcguide.com/intro/fun/bindec-c.html
To see the simplicity of 1024 you need to look at binary and hexadecimal calculations
1024 in binary = 10000000000
1000 in binary = 1111101000
1024 in hex = 0400
1000 in hex = 03E8
All you computers memory busses and even your hard drives are calculated using hexadecimal and none of the calculations will work if you round down to 1000
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