Subj : Re: Is a PC optical drive a "player"?
To   : Nightfox
From : Accession
Date : Thu Apr 24 2025 09:39 pm

Hey Nightfox!

On Thu, Apr 24 2025 20:02:53 -0500, you wrote:

> I've heard people say it's the other way around..  KB is supposedly 
> supposed to be 1000 bytes and KiB is 1024.

FYI, in a quick duckduckgo search.. my first two results conflict each other.

1st result:
   Kibibyte = 1
   Kilobyte = 1.024

2nd result:
   1 kB = 1000 bytes; 1 KiB = 1024 bytes

In any other sense, a "kilo" has always been 1000. So maybe the more common prefixes have been used because it was "close enough". Apparantly, the binary prefixes have been around since 1998? Until recently, they were hardly ever used in normal conversation (and honestly, probably still aren't used much in /normal/ conversation.

Maybe it's just coming a little bit more to the forefront because people care to be much more politically correct these days? I don't know. I will probably continue to use the non-binary prefixes, as it doesn't matter to me much and is easier to remember. ;)

Regards,
Nick

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