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Why do people use M for Megabytes?
by xeromal 4y ago
Why do people use M for Megabytes?
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- Razengan 4y agoRight they should use 🅱 for Biggabytes (the hierarchy being byte < bigbyte < biggabyte < biggestbytes)
- alex_duf 4y agoI think OP meant, why not using the standardised MiB, and the answer is: because it's not that well known.
- zamadatix 4y agoThe way I understand it JEDEC had standardized KB/MB/GB being multiple-of-2-based in memory specs prior to the IEC standardising KiB/MiB/GiB for the same. As a result it kind of just stuck in the space since the idea of multiple-of-10 cache is a bit silly anyways so there is no risk for confusion.
- sp332 4y agoThat doesn’t answer why people use M instead of MB let alone MiB.
- zamadatix 4y agoBecause there is no other interpretation of M that makes sense (neither megabits or base 10 megabytes) you can shorten it further without loss of info, so naturally people have since why not. A similar story can be said of network interface speeds like "10G" which makes its way even to standards names like "10GBASE-SR".