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This whole thread is confusing to me as well. Isn't the whole point of a kibibyte to work in increments of 1024, unlike kilo, which is actually 1000, as define
by kbenson 7y ago
This whole thread is confusing to me as well. Isn't the whole point of a kibibyte to work in increments of 1024, unlike kilo, which is actually 1000, as defined by the sciences long ago?
So 1024 * 256 is 256 KiB by definition, since a Kibibyte is literally 1024 bytes, and the number of Kilobytes will by higher, since the number it represents is smaller.
- GolDDranks 7y agoEither user a1369209993 is unaware of the distinction ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte ) or then they are deliberately ignoring it (My guess: to defend the old definition of kilobyte = 1024 bytes) to the point that their messages look like trolling.
- Thiez 7y agoReality will forcibly catch up with them when they try to buy a new harddrive.
- pavehawk2007 7y agoThat's what I thought. I really only care about how much "stuff" I can store in a block, which is 1,024 bytes. If that's 1KiB or 1.024KBs, the distinction isn't worth that much brainpower.