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Author Topic: Binary Prefixes  (Read 4146 times)

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Binary Prefixes
« on: April 03, 2007, 10:23:52 PM »
I was wondering if anyone else ever heard about the proposed Binary Prefixes such as Kibi, Mebi, and Gibi, and what are your thoughts
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Re: Binary Prefixes
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2007, 10:41:26 PM »
I think the Hutchinson effect is much more fascinating personally.

I actually don't know what you're talking about. Got a link?
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Re: Binary Prefixes
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2007, 11:16:46 PM »
I've always been a fan of 'pseudo' and 'quasi' as far as prefixes go.
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Re: Binary Prefixes
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2007, 11:19:19 PM »
Quote from: Agent_Tachyon on April 03, 2007, 11:16:46 PM
I've always been a fan of 'pseudo'
Me too! I miss her. :-(
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Re: Binary Prefixes
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2007, 11:44:54 PM »
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Re: Binary Prefixes
« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2007, 12:13:43 AM »
I wanna yotta
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Re: Binary Prefixes
« Reply #6 on: April 04, 2007, 12:30:20 AM »
Basically because of the nonstandardisation(actual word?) of the prefixes kilo, mega, etc either meaning 1000 OR 1024

Like when you buy a hard drive and it says 500GB, but it turns out to only have 465GB, reason being the maker of the drive uses decimal measurements, and your computer uses binary measurements.
so the new way is supposed to have seperate prefixes for the binary and decimal measurements

the Gigabyte the the hard drive maker is talking about is decimal, a billion bytes.

the "Gigabyte" that your computer is talking about is binary and equal to 1,073,741,824 bytes, and is now properly called a 'Gibibyte' for GigaBinary


one mebibyte    1 MiB = 1 048 576 B
one megabyte    1 MB = 1 000 000 B
one gibibyte    1 GiB = 1 073 741 824 B
one gigabyte    1 GB = 1 000 000 000 B

I haven't seen it outside of looking it up once I saw it on wikipedia, but apparantly DC++, a few bitTorrent clients, the linux kernel, etc are already using the standard suggested by the IEC which is actually 8 years old.
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Re: Binary Prefixes
« Reply #7 on: April 04, 2007, 01:16:38 AM »
Yeah that has always annoyed me.
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Re: Binary Prefixes
« Reply #8 on: April 04, 2007, 06:19:32 AM »
Sounds like a resonable enough idea. The only question is how long - providing that there will be a widespread agreement to use the new prefixes - it will take to implement them across the board.
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Re: Binary Prefixes
« Reply #9 on: April 04, 2007, 08:00:25 AM »
Sounds like a good idea, put the US on metric at the same time and I am even happier.
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Re: Binary Prefixes
« Reply #10 on: April 04, 2007, 08:07:21 AM »
I think a few good law suits would solve this problem rather quickly.  If we were to bring a class action suit against Western Digital, for example, for false advertising/package labeling and misleading the consumer, they would quickly adopt a more accurate representation of the device capacity.

I'm amazed that this hasn't already happened.
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Re: Binary Prefixes
« Reply #11 on: April 04, 2007, 08:58:54 AM »
Quote from: Komodo on April 03, 2007, 11:44:54 PM
I would of figured you guys smart enough to google it...
Good point. It's more about lack of initiative than lack of brain, altough some may argue otherwise.  :lol: But you are correct.
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Re: Binary Prefixes
« Reply #12 on: April 04, 2007, 09:42:54 AM »
Quote from: BizB on April 04, 2007, 08:07:21 AM
I think a few good law suits would solve this problem rather quickly.  If we were to bring a class action suit against Western Digital, for example, for false advertising/package labeling and misleading the consumer, they would quickly adopt a more accurate representation of the device capacity.

I'm amazed that this hasn't already happened.

Someone beat you to it...
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Re: Binary Prefixes
« Reply #13 on: April 04, 2007, 10:06:27 AM »
Meh, stick to what we've got. 
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Re: Binary Prefixes
« Reply #14 on: April 04, 2007, 12:20:15 PM »
What a complete fucking waste of time.
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Re: Binary Prefixes
« Reply #15 on: April 04, 2007, 12:20:44 PM »
There wouldn't be a problem if they'd only design decimal computers.
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