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

• zaphoyd 11y 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%
  • grubles 11y ago
    Yes, I'm not sure the parent realizes KiB (kibibyte) is different than Kb (kilobit): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte
  • craigds 11y ago
    error of 700%, technically
• imaginenore 11y ago
  How does that solve anything? I still don't know if you meant KiB = kilobit or kilobyte.
  • deleted 11y ago
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• wyldfire 11y 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.