• Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Recommended units for data have been mibibytes (MiB), gibibytes (GiB), etc. for a few years now

    They’re more accurate because they use powers of two (actually 1024 instead of 1000)

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      “Accurate” is probably not the correct word anymore. It was when technical limitations dictated power-of-two capacities. Commodore 64 came out with 64 kiB = 216 B of memory, and FAT32 cannot handle file sizes ≥4 GiB (232 B). However, RAM/ROM/Flash chips manufacturers no longer make exclusively powers-of-two capacities, instead opting for (decinal) GB to save 7 % of the cost (and other fake capacity shenanigans). I prefer binary too but the two unit systems can coexist, people just need to label them correctly.