base 2 or base 10.

Chan Chung Hang Christopher christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Sun Mar 28 16:14:20 BST 2010


David Gerard wrote:
> On 28 March 2010 15:52, Amedee Van Gasse <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:
> 
>> If you RTFA you would know that kilo = 1000 and kibi = 1024.
>> The old computer science degree in you should welcome our new binary
>> prefix overlords.
> 

I thought that one was already licked the other we had a flame war on 
it. :-D


> 
> I thought I'd never use "kibi-" etc. until KDE started using "KiB" and
> "MiB" by default, and I realised this was actually useful.

Gribbit!


> 
> That said, Ubuntu wants non-geeks.

Oh certainly. Nobody wants frogs. Gribbit!



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