Subj : Re: Is a PC optical drive a "player"?
To   : Accession
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri May 09 2025 06:28 pm

  Re: Re: Is a PC optical drive a "player"?
  By: Accession to Nightfox on 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

That makes no sense.

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

That is correct.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#Multiple-byte_units
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