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Why should "kilo-" in programming be different from "kilo-" in physics? It used to be a wrong approach and now people started to unwrangle the mess. SI was inve
by vbezhenar 3y ago
Why should "kilo-" in programming be different from "kilo-" in physics? It used to be a wrong approach and now people started to unwrangle the mess. SI was invented for a reason.
- fl7305 3y agoIn the 1980s and 1990s, no-one thought this was a problem. All computer stuff is based on binary numbers, therefore 2^(10*n) makes a lot more sense than 10^n for us. Do you buy 64 GB of RAM for a new computer? Or is it 68.719476736 GB? It was only the hard drive manufacturers that wanted to inflate their numbers, and started pushing the 10^n scheme. This is coming from someone who grew up with the SI system, which makes a ton of sense for physics and mechanics. Not so much for computer memory.