Re:1nm Breakthrough: TSMC, MIT and NTU Published on Nature
by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday May 28, 2021 @06:55PM
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Both powers of 1000 and 1024 are common in computing depending on the context (no it is not just a hard drive thing). Surely it is only reasonable that the non-SI quantities get their own prefix to distinguish them from the SI quantities?
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Re:1nm Breakthrough: TSMC, MIT and NTU Published on Nature
by threatofrain on Friday May 28, 2021 @07:15PM
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I see consumer confusion as based on our ability to guess whether there's going to be a mismatch between communication and understanding, and despite technical correctness. Admittedly that example is pretty marginal, so I added a better one.