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That doesn’t answer why people use M instead of MB let alone MiB.
by sp332 4y ago
That 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".