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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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