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[Monotone-devel] kibi!
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Lapo Luchini |
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[Monotone-devel] kibi! |
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Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:35:23 +0200 |
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Nope, I'm not talking about small-and-fluffy anime characters (that
would be chibi, anyway), but about the de-iure-but-not-de-facto (yet :P)
standard to use correct "binary" prefixes also for byte, thus removing
confusion.
As it goes 1000 bytes is 1 kilobyte (1 kB)
while 1024 bytes should be called 1 kibibyte (1 KiB).
It's true: pretty much nobody uses "kB" correctly already, but is that a
good reason not to be unambiguous when we could easily avoid it? :P
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibi#IEC_standard_prefixes
Lapo