Units of data transmision used in panel applet

[Bret Busby]

On 15/05/2021, Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Bret,
>
> On Fri, 14 May 2021 at 21:31, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That led me to wonder; does the MiB refer to MegaBytes, as 1,000 x
>> 1,000, like Mega gram, or Mega metre, or, does it refer to MegaBytes,
>> as 1024 x 1024, and, similarly, does the KiB refer to KiloBytes, as
>> 1,000 bytes, like kilometre and kilotonne, or, does it refer to
>> kilobytes, as 1024 bytes?
>>
>> I have not previously been aware of the use of MiB and KiB, and, I an
>> unsure as to which value, each refers.
>>
>
> I believe that MB = 1,000,000 bytes and MiB = 1,048,576 bytes. Basically a
> "MiB" is 2^10 bytes.
>
> KiB, MiB, GiB, etc, all are two to the power of some integer.
>
> There is a Wikipedia page on it, which has much more authority on it than I
> have:-
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#Multiple-byte_units
>

Hmmm.

Thank you for that link.

So, kibibytes are a form of kibbles, and, mebibytes are what you eat,
if you are not sure that you are hungry, and pebibytes are what Fred
and Wilma Flinstone feed their daughter, instead of rusks,  and
zebibytes are dried pellets that are fed to zebra's?

Anyway, thank you for that link, even if the International Energy
Commission has weirder names that the Jedi decimal names.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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