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Acmlm's Board - I3 Archive - Craziness Domain - I hate it when people refer to kilobytes as being 1,024 bytes, megabytes as 1,048,576 bytes, etc. | New poll | | |
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 6431 days Last view: 6431 days |
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Originally posted by JagoriDid you, like, read NOTHING here? |
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Jagori 150 Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6432 days Last view: 6432 days |
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What do you mean? I was just responding to Squash Monster's comment about whole numbers not being special. Mathematically they don't have to be, but if you're counting discrete objects they are. I never said that meant that kilobyte = 1024 bytes.
Obviously, 'kilo' is a prefix meaning 1000, not 1024. I've known about the term 'kibibyte' for quite a while, but I don't really care enough to go through "what's a kibibyte?" every time I want to talk about multiples of 1024 bytes, which is quite often. |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6432 days Last view: 6432 days |
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Exactly, the only time anyone says "kilobyte" and means "1000 bytes" is when they're trying to sell you a hard drive so they can make it sound more impressive by using bigger numbers. |
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