bytes in a word? sram chip...

[Torben]

Hate to revive an old thread but thought I'd post this for anyone who's still confused about the difference between MB, KB, MiB, KiB, etc.

The *true* definitions: https://xkcd.com/394/

For myself, the relatively recent (10 years ago) adoption of the KiB (kibibyte? gimme a break) naming convention is just goofy. If they were going to do that they should have left kilobyte with its original use in base-2 and given the silly kibibyte name to the hard-drive manufacturers' marketdroid base-10 kilobyte.

Then again no-one asked me, oddly.


Torben

 

[Speakerguy]

The definitive authority:

**broken link removed**)

 

[Torben]

The definitive authority:

**broken link removed**)

Yeah. In fact that is linked twice on the first page of this thread.


Torben

 

[Speakerguy]

Oh wow, I guess it helps to read eh?

 

[theinfamousbob]

Hate to revive an old thread but thought I'd post this for anyone who's still confused about the difference between MB, KB, MiB, KiB, etc.

The *true* definitions: https://xkcd.com/394/

For myself, the relatively recent (10 years ago) adoption of the KiB (kibibyte? gimme a break) naming convention is just goofy. If they were going to do that they should have left kilobyte with its original use in base-2 and given the silly kibibyte name to the hard-drive manufacturers' marketdroid base-10 kilobyte.

Then again no-one asked me, oddly.


Torben

Glad I'm not the only one here who reads it.

"Real programmers use butterflies."

 

[Marks256]

I have seen that one. A friend of mine keeps sending me comics from xkcd.