Timeline for Files size units: "KiB" vs "KB" vs "kB"
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| S Jul 17 at 8:52 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
specify what linux does
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| Mar 10 at 13:54 | comment | added | user173175 | @user829755 This sort of "gatekeeping" is exactly what bothers me. It amazes me that this answer got as many votes as it did. | |
| Mar 7 at 14:03 | comment | added | user173175 |
using the uncommon 1000 byte count will add unnecessary complexity and your app will look wrong because it conflicts with what the computer says. Nope. Never assume unnecessary complexity when ignorance, laziness, or complacency will suffice.
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| S Apr 26, 2023 at 16:42 | history | suggested | Luke Usherwood | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
update link
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| Jan 11, 2019 at 22:34 | comment | added | user829755 | what bothers me is that people say "yes, KiB is correct but it's unfamiliar, so I wouldn't use it" but it's exactly these people that are responsible for it being unfamiliar | |
| Jan 6, 2019 at 17:29 | comment | added | Gringo Suave | No, the only places binary terminology makes sense is with RAM and CPU register/bus size, due their binary nature. Everything else: storage and networking, is more appropriately measured in decimal numbers as they have no intrinsic connection to binary. See endolith's comment for further detail. | |
| Apr 20, 2016 at 19:23 | comment | added | DOOManiac | "Users only know how big a file is because their OS tells them." Unless you count the bytes by hand, so do all of us. :P | |
| S Dec 6, 2015 at 10:30 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
windows net market share stat updated from 90% to 70%
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| S Jun 25, 2015 at 7:50 | history | suggested | mic | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
corrected spelling, decapitalized words
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| Jun 24, 2015 at 13:56 | comment | added | endolith | @BenBrocka Decimal notation seldom has a place in computer programming, but it is almost always the appropriate choice for a user interface. Computer guts and programmers are binary, but users are decimal. "Users only know how big a file is because their OS tells them" Yes, and OS X and Linux both use decimal. | |
| Nov 22, 2011 at 16:26 | vote | accept | Hank | ||
| Nov 11, 2011 at 17:16 | comment | added | Jake Berger | +1 for "Users only know how big a file is because their OS tells them." | |
| Nov 11, 2011 at 15:54 | comment | added | Zelda | I also forgot Memory; even if your HDD uses 1000 byte KB, your memory has to use KiB. You're pretty much forced to adopt a second standard because of that. A chip offering 4 gigabytes of RAM can't be 4*10^9. | |
| Nov 11, 2011 at 15:32 | history | edited | Zelda | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 11, 2011 at 15:31 | comment | added | Zelda | Another important (but complex) thing to note here is that binary exponents were used for technical and performance reasons, clusters on your hard drive clusters are sized in binary increments, so even if you report 1000 bytes as a kilobyte you're treating the byte differently between OS and user, which isn't always ideal. Decimal notation seldom has a place in computer science, and this is one of the very few times that comes to the surface to the user, so it's a tricky issue. | |
| Nov 11, 2011 at 15:16 | history | answered | Zelda | CC BY-SA 3.0 |