Re: [Monotone-devel] kibi!

[Nicolas Ruiz]

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Justin Patrin wrote:

> Except that noone knows what a kibibyte is except us few on this
> thread. I'd never heard of such a thing until now. A standard that
> isn't used isn't a standard. It is generally understood that kilobyte
> means 1024 bytes. The hard drive manufacturers lie and say that 1000
> bytes is a kilobyte but as far as I know all other uses of kilobyte
> mean 1024 bytes.

I've seen KiB and MiB in the wild for at least a year now, including a
lecture during a conference, and one coworker is using them regularly.
Is not that rare.

> I vote to use kilobyte to mean 1024 bytes, as it is now.

I could go either way. But can't fail to notice that kilo does come from
the greek word meaning "thousand" and bytes and bits are the only
exception to the rule.

nicolás
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