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   From: candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid   
      
   Jasen Betts  wrote at 09:56 this Wednesday (GMT):   
   > On 2024-06-11, candycanearter07  wrote:   
   >> Mark Lloyd  wrote at 16:36 this Saturday (GMT):   
   >>> On 6/7/24 14:05, Mike Easter wrote:   
   >>>> Mike Easter wrote:   
   >>>>> A kilobyte is 1000 bytes, not 1024.  1024 bytes are a kibibyte.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Abbreviations are one thing; prefixes are another.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> And, for the 'record' the 'internationally accepted' abbreviation for   
   >>>> kilobyte is Kb, while the similarly accepted abbreviation for kibibyte   
   >>>> is KiB.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The 'problem' w/ the apparent discrepancy in the lettercase of the K/k   
   >>>> is the 'inconsistency' in the base 10 family, where only the kilo is a   
   >>>> lower case, and all of the rest starting w/ mega are capped; whereas in   
   >>>> the base 2 family, the prefix abbreviation letter is always capped.   
   >>>   
   >>> And case matters for the last letter too. b is bits, B is bytes.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> And i is never capitalized either, which is a bit weird.   
   >   
   > B is also Bel... as in decibel.   
   >   
   > hmm   
   >   
   >  0dBB  = 1 byte   
   >  10dBB = 10 bytes   
   >  30dBB = 1000 bytes.   
   >  90dBB = 1GB   
   >   
   > With this we can linearise Moore's law, so basically a useless   
   > diversion, sorry for wasting your time.   
      
      
   Huh, I've never heard of using decibels for storage space.   
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