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Is MiB/GiB binary? And, GB/MB SI? Or the other way around?
by kungfufrog 5y ago
Is 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.