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Kilo is always 1000. Kibi is 1024. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
by extropy 5y ago
Kilo is always 1000.
Kibi is 1024.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
- flohofwoe 5y agoI know the 'kibibytes' thing but never encountered it in a real-world context (e.g. like "the C64 had 64 kibibytes of RAM").
- Kubuxu 5y agoI personally decided to just use them always for clarity and I saw few people around me catch on. Be the change you want to see, especially when it comes to the free minor stuff.
- cout 5y agoKibi didn't exist until 1998 (per your link), so anything you read that was written prior to that and for a few years after still has the kilo=1000/1024 ambiguity.