May 14, 2008 at 9:20 pmKibibytes
Not everyone knows, but who knows, out of habit, ignores that for the designation of round binary numbers, the use of prefixes from the SI system has long been wrong.
1 kilobyte is still 1000, not 1024 bytes. So manufacturers of hard drives have not been deceiving anyone for a long time, but are writing the truth. In short - forget that 1024 bytes are 1 kilobyte - this is 1 kibibyte.
The International Electrotechnical Commission adopted such changes back in 1999, and GOST consolidated this in 2002, under number 8.417
“New” consoles are consonant with their counterparts from the SI system - begin on the same syllable, and the second syllable is always the letter “bi” - from the word binary (binary).
ps: this is a cross-post from my main blog .
1 kilobyte is still 1000, not 1024 bytes. So manufacturers of hard drives have not been deceiving anyone for a long time, but are writing the truth. In short - forget that 1024 bytes are 1 kilobyte - this is 1 kibibyte.
The International Electrotechnical Commission adopted such changes back in 1999, and GOST consolidated this in 2002, under number 8.417
“New” consoles are consonant with their counterparts from the SI system - begin on the same syllable, and the second syllable is always the letter “bi” - from the word binary (binary).
ps: this is a cross-post from my main blog .