That’s cute, but frankly it’s overly technical and not very
user-friendly. Go ahead and google “MiB” to see what pops up.
I understand the rationale, but the practical reality is that most
people will just wonder why “MB” is mis-spelled.
Is there anything in this world that the standards committees cannot
make worse? :)
On 28 Jan 2020, at 11:41, Ian Petersen wrote:
Glenn,
BTW, another odd bit is the use of “MiB” and “KiB”. In
English, “MiB” is most likely read as “Men In Black” (the
movie). “Megabyte” is just “MB” (there’s not even an
“i” in the word), and “Kilobyte” is just “KB”.
Actually these are the correct ISO standard names for 1024 bytes or
1024 kibibytes.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte
Cheers
Ian
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