• Kairos@lemmy.today
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    7 months ago

    No the correct way is to use the proper fucking metric standard. Use Mi or Gi if you need it. We have computers that can divide large numbers now. We don’t need bit shifting.

    • ursakhiin@beehaw.org
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      7 months ago

      This is such a weird take to me. We don’t even colloquially discuss computer storage in terms of 1000.

      The Greek terms were used from the beginning of computing and the new terms of kibi and mebi (etc.) were only added in 1998 when Members it the IEC got upset. But despite that, most personal computers still report in the binary way. The decimal is only used on boxes for marketing terms.