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I'd call them "MB (megabytes)" and "MMB" (marketing megabytes). Pretty clear.
by bo1024 9y ago
I'd call them "MB (megabytes)" and "MMB" (marketing megabytes). Pretty clear.
- l-p 9y agoThere is already MiB (mebibytes) and MB (once actual megabytes, now what you call MMB).
- bo1024 9y agoYes but that concedes the change in definition of MB, which I strongly dislike.
- fnj 9y ago"M" - "Mega" is an official general purpose SI prefix approved in 1960 which always stood for a decimal multiplier. Its common usage as a binary multiplier was limited to counting units of computer memory, and is purely an approximation to allow convenient speaking of, e.g., a megabyte of RAM instead of 1.048576 megabytes of RAM. Because it reflects the natural scale of physical memory. It is more properly referred to as "MeB" - "mebi", which became an ISO standard prefix in 2008.