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Re:Base Ten for Almost Everything by kazinator on Monday February 15, 2016 @08:17AM (#11103186)
What quantity has two SI units such that one is 8 times the other, and are kilo-, mega-, etc used for both?
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Re:Base Ten for Almost Everything by creshal on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @10:52AM (#11110633)
Neither bit nor byte are SI units.

What, exactly, is the problem with using IEC binary prefixes for multiples of 1024?

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