On Aug 14, 2017, at 19:04, Peter West wrote: > When I see MiB, I think million bytes. Is this wrong?
Yes, that is wrong, or at least is not what other people mean. 1 MB = one megabyte = 10^6 bytes = 1,000,000 bytes 1 MiB = one mebibyte (what we used to call one megabyte) = 2^20 bytes = 1,048,576 bytes Same goes for the other units (kibibytes, gibibytes, tebibytes, etc.). See: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte
