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The label of the ordinate contains an error - kilobyte = byte * 1024, as opposed to byte / 1024
by philip1209 14y ago
The label of the ordinate contains an error - kilobyte = byte * 1024, as opposed to byte / 1024
- drcube 14y agoNo, #bytes * (1 kilobyte)/(1024 bytes) = #kilobytes or bytes/1024=kilobytes, for short. Basically, it's a conversion factor, not a definition.
- abrahamsen 14y agoMight want to consider using the unambiguous term kibibyte instead. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte It is a tradeoff, it avoids the need to explain which definition of kilo is used, at the cost of using a far less common term.
- RobAtticus 14y agoKibibyte doesn't make things clearer in this case. They aren't talking about whether the factor should be 1000 or 1024. The first poster said that kilobytes should be bytes * 1024. That is incorrect. The number of kilobytes is equal to the number of bytes / 1024, not bytes * 1024.