MiB in gparted?

[Thomas Kaiser]

Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> I am one of those who think it's important to separate MB from MiB (and 
> GB from GiB etc etc), just for the simple reason that there is a big 
> difference. It's not htat hard either: 1 MB = 10^(6) bytes = 1000000 bytes, 
> 1 MiB = 2²^(0) bytes = 1048576 bytes.
> 
> However, I can't really say that I can see clearly why MiB is necessary 
> these days.

Because the base is 8 (Octal)? 1 Byte are 8 Bit.

Thomas