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One thing that annoys me is: Why don’t kilobyte continue to mean 1024 and introduce kilodebyte to mean 1000. Byte, to me implies a binary number system, and i
by mc32 9mo ago
One thing that annoys me is:
Why don’t kilobyte continue to mean 1024 and introduce kilodebyte to mean 1000. Byte, to me implies a binary number system, and if you want to introduce a new nomenclature to reduce confusion, give the new one a new name and let the older of more prevalent one in its domain keep the old one…
- gizmo686 9mo agoBecause kilo- already has a meaning. And both usages of kilobyte were (and are) in use. If we are going to fix the problem, we might as well fix it right.
- mc32 9mo agoSure outside of computing in other science it has a meaning but in binary computing traditionally prefix + byte implied binary number quantities. Many things acquire domain specific nuanced meaning ..
- floren 9mo agoAnd yet in computing, a 1kHz clock is still 1000 cycles per second, and 1 MFLOP is still 1,000,000 floating-point operations per second.
- antonvs 9mo agoThe comment you replied to explained that: "in binary computing traditionally prefix + byte implied binary number quantities." There are no bytes involved in Hz or FLOPs.
- pdw 9mo agoEven in computing the binary definition is only used with memory sizes. E.g. storage, network speeds, clock rates use the standard definition.
- pif 9mo ago> Why don’t kilobyte continue to mean 1024 Because it never did!
- ratrace 9mo agoWhich universe do you hail from? Because nobody except pedants have relented to this demand from non-computer scientists to conform to a standardization that has nothing to do with them or the work they do.