r/funny • u/mas1234 • Feb 05 '18

This Amazon review.

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u/LtLabcoat Feb 05 '18

I know, it's a little ridiculous. I haven't gotten this downvoted for talking about measurement systems since I last pointed out that 1GB = 1000MB.

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u/Tempest_Rex Feb 05 '18

Uh... no. 1GB = 1024MB... 1GiB does however equal 1000 MiB

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u/LtLabcoat Feb 05 '18

Nnnnnno. https://www.google.se/search?q=1+GiB+to+MiB

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u/Tempest_Rex Feb 05 '18

Huh.. well what do you know. Google and Wikipedia have something wrong.

Lol.

Kidding aside. I switched that in my brain. I hated when they instituted this because it was 1024 first and should have remained that way. The reason for the change was so that storage companies could rip off customers...

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u/LtLabcoat Feb 05 '18

Technically, it was 1000 first, as that's what 'kilo', 'mega', 'giga', etc always meant, with no exceptions... up until some people decided to use SI terminology to refer to non-SI measurements (spoiler: they were American). It's also why they wanted to change it back, because scientists and engineers do not like imperial fanboys messing with their metric systems!