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Or they could stick with binary and introduce a name for 1/1024th of an inch. Borrow a meme from the “almost SI” prefixes kibi, mebi, gibi etc., and call it a m
by hanche 3y ago
Or they could stick with binary and introduce a name for 1/1024th of an inch. Borrow a meme from the “almost SI” prefixes kibi, mebi, gibi etc., and call it a mibi, perhaps? ;-)
- flangola7 3y agoWhat the hell are kibi and gibi?
- hanche 3y agoKibibyte: 1024 bytes. Gibibyte: 2^30 or 1,073,741,824 bytes. The -bi suffix is intended to signify “binary”.
- delta_p_delta_x 3y agoThey are IEC prefixes, complementary to the SI prefixes, and they only are defined for positive exponents. kibi : ki : 2^10 mebi : Mi : 2^20 gibi : Gi : 2^30 tebi : Ti : 2^40 ... Conveniently, these numbers are fairly close to 10^3, 10^6, 10^9, and 10^12 respectively (but with increasing error: 2^40 is almost 10% larger than 10^12, whereas 2^10 is only 2.4% larger than 10^3). This leads to a lot of conflation, mess, and misreporting by vendors and OS authors. Windows is an egregious example. A 1 TB (terabyte, 10^12) disk is reported in Windows as 931.7 GB. It ought to be 931.7 GiB, which is what Linux does. macOS uses the correct number but SI prefixes, so 1 TB is reported as 1 TB.
- edgineer 3y agoWait, does MacOS report file sizes in base 10 as well, or just disks?
- delta_p_delta_x 3y agoFile sizes too.
- boolemancer 3y agoI think it's hard to call it misreporting when they've been reporting it the same way since before the standard you'd rather they use existed.
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