BmeBenji@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 8 months agoKB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?message-squaremessage-square196fedilinkarrow-up1395arrow-down127
arrow-up1368arrow-down1message-squareKB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?BmeBenji@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 8 months agomessage-square196fedilink
minus-squaresurvivalmachine@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·8 months agoK/M/G/T/P = decimal prefixes. K is 1000. M is 1,000,000. etc. Ki/Mi/Gi/Ti/Pi = binary prefixes. Ki is 2¹⁰ (1024), Mi is 2²⁰ (1,048,576), etc. It’s a disambiguation of the previous system where we would use KB to interchangeably mean 1000 or 1024 depending on context.
K/M/G/T/P = decimal prefixes. K is 1000. M is 1,000,000. etc.
Ki/Mi/Gi/Ti/Pi = binary prefixes. Ki is 2¹⁰ (1024), Mi is 2²⁰ (1,048,576), etc.
It’s a disambiguation of the previous system where we would use KB to interchangeably mean 1000 or 1024 depending on context.