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Re:Computer Scientists’ Trivia by maggit on Thursday February 02, 2017 @04:39AM (#13549302)
From what I found in Wikipedia, the "kibi"-family of prefixes was not defined before 1998. There's a lot of computer history before (and after!) that establishing the use of kilo for 2^10. Calling this wrong outright is historyless.

Perhaps instead we could say: This is a funny artifact of history, and it is contrary to the long standing SI-definition of kilo as 10^3. We have since tried correcting that mistake by introducing the prefixes kibi-, mebi-, etc. A better table could say:

    kibi = 2^10 ~ 10^3 = kilo
    ...

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