27 Jul
2006
27 Jul
'06
10:08 a.m.
Doc Shipley wrote:
Allison wrote:
The SI prefixes (k) kilo and (M) mega have always meant 10**3 and 10**6.
The computer industry decided that K should mean 1024 (which is
fine if somewhat confusing) but trying to bend mega into something
that it should never have been was just lazy ...
Antonio
Whats a millibyte? Saw that once!
We now have mebibytes, kibibytes, and other associated crap instead
of proper terminology. If you read much open-source literature or
docs, that spec is becoming disturbingly common.
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
Can you tell I'm not thrilled?