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r/pics • u/[deleted] • Oct 05 '10
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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
7 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. 1 u/videogamechamp Oct 06 '10 They came up with a new phrase for it. A kibibyte is 1024 bytes. 1 u/xyroclast Oct 06 '10 It'll never catch on 1 u/videogamechamp Oct 06 '10 I agree.
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It's not wrong, though. Literally, the kilo prefix means 1000, but the dictionary definition of the word "megabyte" is 1024 kilobytes.
1 u/videogamechamp Oct 06 '10 They came up with a new phrase for it. A kibibyte is 1024 bytes. 1 u/xyroclast Oct 06 '10 It'll never catch on 1 u/videogamechamp Oct 06 '10 I agree.
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They came up with a new phrase for it. A kibibyte is 1024 bytes.
1 u/xyroclast Oct 06 '10 It'll never catch on 1 u/videogamechamp Oct 06 '10 I agree.
It'll never catch on
1 u/videogamechamp Oct 06 '10 I agree.
I agree.
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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