> Computers don't use base 10. Truth? It's only a lie, even if they call
> it 'standard' and try to force us to use ridiculous designations like
> 'kibibytes' and 'mebibytes'.
> I'm a programmer, and I know 1 km = 1024 meters ;)
>
Amen, brother. I'm a big fan of SI prefixes (in EE, prefixes
often range from pico to giga and everywhere in-between). When it comes
to computer-related things though IMO,
1KB = 2^10 bytes
1MB = 2^20 bytes... etc
Who the hell thought 'kibibytes' and 'mebibytes' was pronounceable
and didn't make the speaker sound like they were 3 years old?
-Cory
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* Cory Papenfuss, Ph.D., PPSEL-IA *
* Electrical Engineering *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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