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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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