I don't see the problem with dividing by 1024?
The process is quantising a variable. Say our variable voltage lies in the range 0 to 10 Volts and we have one bit to use for the digital result of the quantising (2 to the power of 1 = 2, so we have two levels to play with):

A. The result 0 means that the voltage was in the range 0 to 5 Volts (not that it was zero).
B. The result 1 means the voltage was in the range 5 to 10 volts (not that it was 10 volts)

So each level is 10/2 volts wide. Not 10/1 volt wide.

The bit of cake after carving it up into portions has a slice 0 - it is not any smaller than any other slice.

This is not jibberish created by highly paid engineers it is simple maths.

I wonder how many devices you have launched on the world that are happily 'over' measuring analog quantities by assuming that each slice is bigger than it actualy is?

Kind regards to you all

Bill Legge