What still do you use? (MiB, MB…)

[Eric H. Christensen]

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On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 08:04:35PM +0100, Kévin Raymond wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I am about to update websites in order to use the mebi, gibi… notation.
> That's a binary unit used now (or at least we have to use them). If
> nobody change, we would still confuse beginers trying to understand if
> M is 1000 or 1024.

Yes, we would still confuse people, beginners and veterans alike.

That said, it would seem proper to follow NIST, IEC 60027-2 A.2, and ISO/IEC 80000[0] in our documentation.

k == 1000
ki == 1024

[0] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Binary_prefix#Specific_units_of_IEC_60027-2_A.2_and_ISO.2FIEC_80000

- -- Eric

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