base 2 or base 10.

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On 28-03-10 12:31, Chris Jones wrote:

> The main problem was the same units (GB) have commonly been used in both
> places, which is where most of the confusion comes from IMO. This though
> was clarified a few years back (2000)

In December 1998 the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), 
the leading international organization for worldwide standardization in 
electrotechnology, approved as an IEC International Standard names and 
symbols for prefixes for binary multiples for use in the fields of data 
processing and data transmission.

> and now the SI units of GB, MB TB
> etc should only be used when using the base 10 system. If an application
> wishes to report sizes in base 2, they should use the GiB, MiB instead.
> Anything that still uses GB for base 10 is wrong.

I think you wanted to write "Anything that still uses GB for base 2 is 
wrong."


(please move to sounder)