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> With this particular measurement, we’re using 3083MB, or 3.08GB Don't mix up SI and binary prefixes, kids! The listing shows 3083 MiB, which is either 3.01 G
by rhn_mk1 5y ago
> With this particular measurement, we’re using 3083MB, or 3.08GB
Don't mix up SI and binary prefixes, kids! The listing shows 3083 MiB, which is either 3.01 GiB, or 3.23 GB. There's no mainstream interpretation giving 3.08 of something.
- kungfufrog 5y agoIs MiB/GiB binary? And, GB/MB SI? Or the other way around?
- teddyh 5y agoYes, yes, and no.
- tialaramex 5y agoIt's easy to remember. The SI prefixes are always decimal, that's why people call it "the decimal system". Kilopascals, megajoules, centimetres, always powers of ten. So a megabuck is 10^6 bucks, 1 million bucks, and a gigabyte is 10^9 bytes, 1 billion bytes. The weird power-of-two prefixes get the special weird symbol and name, because you wouldn't want those anywhere except computing.