"Error splicing file: File too large"

Ralf Mardorf silver.bullet at zoho.com
Sun Sep 18 09:40:17 UTC 2016


On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 10:26:19 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>one describes exactly 1000 megabyte, the other describes 1074 megabyte
>... they are different units for decimal [1] vs binary [2] measurement,
>one is just more fine grained than the other, thats all... and i dont
>think there is any rule "what you should use".

In the past one KB, MB ... always was related to 1024, by the nature of
the binary system, which simply is the base of computers. It became an
odd fashion after a while, to wrongly use the computer term Byte in
combination with decimal. To distinguish nowadays it's important to
use KiB, MiB ... .

Regards,
Ralf





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