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Wrongheaded view of the world? When doing science, is it inappropriate to distinguish between the numbers 1000 and 1024?

• zeveb 11y ago
  > When doing science, is it inappropriate to distinguish between the numbers 1000 and 1024? Of course not! In computers, 'kilo-' means 1,024; everywhere else it means 1,000. This is a simple rule; network-device and hard-drive manufacturers are just wrong when they violate it.
  • ybx 11y ago
    This is actually incorrect. "kilo-" always means 1000, and computers are not given some exception. 1024 is a KiB, 1000 is a KB.
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