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Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

KB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?

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KB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?

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Try KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, those are metric, KB is not
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  Other way round: prefixes that contain “bi” are binary, so 1024-based.

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