THE WHATIS.COM WORD-OF-THE-DAY May 10, 2004 Kibi, mebi, gibi, tebi, pebi, and all that _____________ SPONSORED BY: SearchOracle.com
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In most of the physical sciences, and when describing quantities of objects generally, these multipliers refer to powers of 10. However, when used to define data quantity in terms of bytes, they refer to powers of 2. 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