Every day you learn something. Thanks for response. I agree, I was the same way for a long time. Marketing stunt by people who don't comprehend how many problems you create when you try to taking one of the most fundamental constants in computer science and try fudging it.
So even though is in a sense the "correct" usage whatever that means , it is likely to cause confusion. This post benefited from the summary of the official linked documentation. Gaurav Jeswani 4, 5 5 gold badges 22 22 silver badges 39 39 bronze badges. Kaniki Kaniki 79 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge. Quite simple William William It was simply wrong to use the prefix kilo to mean anything other than Once it caught on it's hard to get people away from it.
I'm not going to be saying 'kibibyte', it's sound like something that that should be fed to a cat. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password.
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Question feed. Stack Overflow works best with JavaScript enabled. Accept all cookies Customize settings. In those specific cases where it does, they should already be measuring the exact footprints of everything and not assuming the sizes of anything from documentation alone. The benefit however, is that your assumptions about what somebody else meant by "2kB" will not hurt you when they're wrong.
Which in this specific case, and as a general lesson to your students - I feel is important. Are these engineering related undergrads? If yes, I'd with , based on binary math as that is what engineering is based on.
Manufacturers may advertise as 2. In my 26 years as a professional software engineer I have never encountered KB to mean anything other than Teach them whatever definitions you like and make sure that they know that is the only useful one. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.
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Personally, I am used to seeing "kB", even when it strictly isn't a SI prefix. So it is not always about programming. The SI unit for quantity is the mole. Show 11 more comments. Active Oldest Votes.
Improve this answer. Mike P Mike P 1, 1 1 gold badge 5 5 silver badges 4 4 bronze badges. Just because kibble exists doesn't mean people like or actually use it. I have always found the attempted adoption of SI usage an incorrect and unnecessary confusion.
That said, as an educator, a student will need to understand the confusion. Show 30 more comments. Bass Bass 4 4 silver badges 3 3 bronze badges. A megapixel is 1 million pixels, a megabit is a million bits. It depends on OS also. In , Apple switched to standards-based prefixes for filesystems etc, to match disk drive manufacturers, i. Add a comment. Buffy Buffy IEC really just made a mess of things. But more important: If you teach them just the one thing as the "correct thing" you are setting them up for confusion later.
The world is messy. Teachers shouldn't pretend it isn't. Being dogmatic isn't very helpful. Show 15 more comments. Where used mainly It is important to show where the 2 systems are used. IEC A. SI units e. Community Bot 1. I am trying to extend on other answers. Two nitpicks: 0 For all the prefixes k, M, Mi, Gi, etc. Show 7 more comments. I have seen people mixing up millimetre with megamolar. It therefore doesn't resolve the ambiguity the way MiB does.
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