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[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
On So, 2016-09-18 at 11:40 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 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 ... .

did you actually read the wikipage you initially linked yourself ?

there is nothing wrong with using GB ... it is just a different unit of
measurement and you should know which is which when talking about it,
thats all ... there is no "better" or "should be used instead" :)

ciao
	oli
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