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[Peter West]

Thanks Ryan.

That sucks, quite apart from the woeful UX of MiB.

Mebibyte? Really? Kibibyte? Gibibyte?

It sounds like a toddler demanding a smartphone.

"Oh how we laughed when people took us seriously!”

--
Peter West
pbw at pbw.id.au
“My soul magnifies the Lord…”


> On 15 Aug 2017, at 8:41 pm, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Aug 14, 2017, at 19:04, Peter West wrote:
> 
>> When I see MiB, I think million bytes. Is this wrong?
> 
> Yes, that is wrong, or at least is not what other people mean.
> 
> 1 MB = one megabyte = 10^6 bytes = 1,000,000 bytes
> 1 MiB = one mebibyte (what we used to call one megabyte) = 2^20 bytes = 1,048,576 bytes
> 
> Same goes for the other units (kibibytes, gibibytes, tebibytes, etc.).
> 
> See:
> 
> - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
> - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte
> 
> 


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