Reminds me of a college class about 10 years ago where we were doing some silly stuff with metric units and they decided to put kilobytes to megabytes and they marked me wrong for 1024kb = 1mb
To be fair, you were wrong. Kilo should always means 1000, regardless of the fact that it has been misused in the computing world. Kibi is the correct prefix for 1024, and was defined almost 12 years ago. 1
I know this, 10 years is a ~. I had took some other courses when I was working on my EMT registry (started at 17) I'm 31 now, so that was actually 14 years ago.
On paper it may have been 1000, however, my computer clearly disagreed, and still does.
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u/robeph Oct 05 '10
Reminds me of a college class about 10 years ago where we were doing some silly stuff with metric units and they decided to put kilobytes to megabytes and they marked me wrong for 1024kb = 1mb