Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help.

Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 20 Dec 2001 21:41:04 +0000

RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado wrote:
> >You are close - he uses "MiB" as short for "mebi" - Mega-binary.
>
> Personally I don't like very much the abbreviations, but I must
> recognize that they remove all possible ambiguity for the
> Configure.help. With MiB, GiB, etc... you're completely sure that you
> are talking about 2^20, 2^30 and not 10^6, 10^9, etc...

Hah! Everytime I have seen "MiB" before this thread I'd though it meant
"Million Bytes", because everyone knows that MB in computers is a
megabyte (<ahem>).

Actually I think I have only ever seen MiB and GiB in the context of
disk drives before now.

-- Jamie
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