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		SequoiaHope on Feb 26, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mac finder uses 1,000,000 bytes instead of 1,048,5... https://xkcd.com/927/ I say this because most regular folks don’t even know what a gigabyte is so asking them to understand what a gibibyte is does not really “solve the problem” of consumer understanding.

dataflow on Feb 26, 2021 [–]

The xkcd isn't really relevant here, there are only 2 competing standards here and the proposal is to pick the other one.

arghwhat on Feb 27, 2021 | [–]

There were two standards (different prefix definitions) - the kibi/mibi/... line of prefixes was made as a solution.

So now there are three standards.

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