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Huh?
The two different units do not have the same name, nor do they have the same abbreviation. According to IEEE 1541 standard (as well as similar standards),
1 kilobyte = 1 kB = 1000 bytes,
1 megabyte = 1 MB = 1000 kilobytes,
1 gigabyte = 1 GB = 1000 megabytes,
etc., and
1 kibibyte = 1 KiB = 1024 bytes,
1 mebibyte = 1 MiB = 1024 kibibytes,
1 gibibyte = 1 GiB = 1024 mebibytes,
etc.
There is nothing wrong with using either base 10 or base 2 units in Finder, provided the correct unit abbreviation is given so users can easily recognize which base units are being used for measurements.
Huh?
That's interesting... I have never seen the different names, and I doubt many other people have either. I have seen the different abbreviations (ie. GiB vs. GB) but it never really dawned on me what each one meant. I'd be curious to know the percentage of computer software that actually uses the correct abbreviations/terms - I think I've only seen *iB in some bit torrent programs .. and maybe also in some Linux environments. I know Windows doesn't use it, as the 95,737,000,000 bytes free on my Windows machine are reported as 89.1 GB, and I'm pretty sure previous Mac OSes didn't (I only have Lion machines, but I verified this in the screenshot on the Disk Utility Wikipedia page.)
Huh?
The kibi,mebi etc stuff are quite recent units specifically created to tell the difference between the two.
Huh?
The binary unit prefixes aren't terribly recent. They've been around for awhile (~15 years, IIRC) albeit not the centuries that the base ten unit prefixes have existed. |
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