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benjarrell | 10 years ago

I used to resist the KiB/MiB/GiB nomenclature. But after seeing this problem everywhere, I've changed my mind.

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zaphoyd|10 years ago

I think in this case the issue isn't binary prefixes vs decimal which in this case would amount to a ~7% error, but rather bits vs bytes which is an error of ~800%

craigds|10 years ago

error of 700%, technically

imaginenore|10 years ago

How does that solve anything? I still don't know if you meant KiB = kilobit or kilobyte.

wyldfire|10 years ago

As others have pointed out it's the difference between bits and bytes. But "among bytes" units, I prefer the base-2 SI units (KiB/MiB/GiB) because as written, they're unambiguous.