I've searched around a little bit to no avail. I'm leaning towards a plain byte being 2^0 compared to a KB being 2^10, MB 2^20, GB 2^30, etc... Thanks in advance for the help.
Is a byte 2^0? Or 2^1? Any explanation would also be appreciated as I'm really not just looking for an answer so much as I'm looking for understanding.
I misread your question, so I deleted my old answer:
1 Kilobyte = 1024 bytes.
So:
1 Kilobyte = 2^10 bytes
What you're asking is how much one byte is, in bytes. So the answer to that is easy:
1 byte = 1 byte
And yes you can express this as :
1 byte = 2^0 bytes
Because : anything to the power of 0 is 1
But saying 1 byte = 2^0 bytes is a bit of a ridiculous thing ;)
Cheat sheet, for future reference:
x^0 = 1
x^1 = x
Comment on your later comment:
1KB memory bank system = 1024 bytes. 1024 / 128 bytes = 8 chips.