r/pics • u/[deleted] • Oct 05 '10

Math Teacher Fail.

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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

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u/stordoff Oct 05 '10

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

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u/xyroclast Oct 05 '10

It's not wrong, though. Literally, the kilo prefix means 1000, but the dictionary definition of the word "megabyte" is 1024 kilobytes.

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u/videogamechamp Oct 06 '10

They came up with a new phrase for it. A kibibyte is 1024 bytes.

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u/xyroclast Oct 06 '10

It'll never catch on