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Re:Performance notes by Veratyr on Friday May 26, 2017 @01:53PM (#14425928)
Minor quibble but in case anyone wonders like I did, the cases for units are mostly backwards. When he writes "Kb", he means "kB" (I looked at the size of the homepage, which is 10kB).

For anyone wondering what I'm talking about, the kilo prefix is lower case K, the symbol for a byte is upper case B and lower case B is a bit. Kb = kilobit with badly capitalised kilo. kB = kilobyte. kb = kilobit.

Also, interestingly, the JEDEC unit for 1024 bytes is KB while the metric one is kB. This is the only somewhat unambiguous JEDEC unit, the other two are corruptions of metric units.

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Re:Performance notes by masklinn on Friday May 26, 2017 @04:54PM (#14427102)
> Also, interestingly, the JEDEC unit for 1024 bytes is KB while the metric one is kB.

However the SI k prefix means 1000 (10^3) rather than 1024, which would be Ki.

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Re:Performance notes by Veratyr on Friday May 26, 2017 @05:49PM (#14427463)
Yep, sorry, I worded that pretty wrong.

Also, Ki is an IEC prefix and distinct from the metric system. Metric doesn't have anything other than decimal prefixes as far as I know.

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Re:Performance notes by IshKebab on Saturday May 27, 2017 @05:32AM (#14429500)
But in practice almost nobody uses 'kibibyte' etc because they sound ridiculous.
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Re:Performance notes by dracos on Friday May 26, 2017 @03:56PM (#14426707)
Sorry to confuse, now fixed. Think I just predate all this standardization. I did mean KB (at least, that is what DevTools uses and from where I copied the figures :) ).
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