Peter Hansen wrote:
I'll be one of the last holdouts, too... it's really not so hard to work in powers of two if you try...
The difficulty isn't with working in powers of 1024, it's that the terms are used inconsistently even within the computing industry. Memory is measured in kibibytes, but disk space is measured in kilobytes. Something as basic as "1 meg" has different numeric meanings depending on whether you're talking about memory or disk space or metered bandwidth usage. And a 1.44 MB isn't 1000^2 bytes or 1024^2 bytes, but rather 1024*1000 bytes!
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