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why would you want base-10 sizes?
Authored by: Lizard_King on Apr 09, '03 06:17:32PM

This is definitely not a flame, just an academic question ;-)

I'm just trying to understand why you would want to see file sizes (or any other system metric) in decimal. Systems are inherently binary by nature so representing this information in any other base besides base-2 would be inaccurate.

I guess I could see if you are trying to do approximations and require quick math, that might suffice... any insight for me?



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why would you want base-10 sizes?
Authored by: Hes Nikke on Apr 09, '03 10:03:47PM

did you read the link?

the link explains all about Mega, and Mebi, and why the computer industry applied non-standard difeninitions to terms that are standard every else.

you're right, they noticed that 1 KiB and 1KB were almost the same (1024, 1000) and that is were all our trubbles bagan

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