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Might want to consider using the unambiguous term kibibyte instead. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte It is a tradeo
by abrahamsen 14y ago
Might 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.