Decimal units or binary GB vs GiB, TB vs TiB,

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Random internet user disagrees with the International System of Units (SI). That is a toughy… who do I side with?

The prefixes used are not unique to data in computer systems. They are used for many different types of units, like kilometer, kilogram, and in all those other cases they have a decimal representation. So… for a consistent system to work, we can’t use the same prefixes to have a binary meaning.

Besides, now we can have fun things like KiM => kibimeter, KiG => kibigram! Who doesn’t want that?

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