Ubuntu Desktop Unit Consistency (LP: #369525)

[Ivan Surzhenko]

2009/6/3 Scott James Remnant <scott at canonical.com>

> On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 10:58 -0600, Neal McBurnett wrote:
>
> > and I don't see any mention of it in the reports.  Scott - can you
> > shed some more light on that?
> >
> A general consensus was reached that MB means powers of ten, MiB means
> powers of two, and that places where MB is used to mean powers of two
> are bugs.  (Common sense, really)
>
> We also generally tended to agree that it was always better to present
> numbers in MB rather than MiB, as file sizes, disk sizes, bandwidth,
> etc. are all counted in MB anyway.
>
> Scott
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More details about MiB and MB: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte

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