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StableAlkyne a day ago

> Sometimes mega is squared as in megapixels. Sometime not as in megabytes.

Even worse is Mega in Megabytes could be 1,000,000 or 1,048,576 and it's more or less up to you to know what's what

(Yeah, there are formally megabytes/mebiibytes/MiB/MB, but I honestly cannot recall the last time I heard anyone use anything other than just "megabyte" for 2^20 bytes... Or even wanted to refer to exactly 1,000,000 bytes. Other than decades ago when disk manufacturers wanted to make their hardware seem higher capacity than it really was)

klysm a day ago | parent | next [-]

I see MiB in usage a lot and I always make the distinction myself

BlueTemplar a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Wait, when did they stop ?!