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Yeah I never really felt comfortable with this base 10 thing. Maybe because I believe base 2 representation is the way to express what it actually is. On the o
by chanux 17y ago
Yeah I never really felt comfortable with this base 10 thing. Maybe because I believe base 2 representation is the way to express what it actually is.
On the other hand base 2 should've been confusing average Joe for a long time now and the operating systems that want themselves to be average Joe understandable.
- rdtsc 17y ago> On the other hand base 2 should've been confusing average Joe for a long time now Base 2 became not just confusing but seemingly 'fraudulent' when it comes to buying terabyte sized storage media. A user would expect to get 1TiB but is actually getting 1TB. 1TB = 1000^4 = 1000000000000B 1TiB = 1024^4 = 1099511627776B That is quite a bit of a difference. Am I the only computer geek who thinks that base 10 is more logical and consistent? If a byte (1B) is considered a unit, then 1KB should be 1000B, 1MB=1000^2B, 1GB=1000^3B, 1TB=1000^4B and so on?
- bfung 17y agoAlso, the labels are fairly clear; I don't see too much of a problem for smart people to unlearn a bad habit. How many people here think that a kilometer is 1024 meters?