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:Well, SI and IEC either state or 'recommend' that a kilobyte (kB) is 10³ bytes, while tradition has tended to use KB (capital-K) for 2¹⁰ bytes (obviously open for confusion) while IEC defines this as a 'kibibyte' (KiB). There's several possible cites for that, one really would need to decide which look best/official. | :Well, SI and IEC either state or 'recommend' that a kilobyte (kB) is 10³ bytes, while tradition has tended to use KB (capital-K) for 2¹⁰ bytes (obviously open for confusion) while IEC defines this as a 'kibibyte' (KiB). There's several possible cites for that, one really would need to decide which look best/official. | ||
:As a general hint to people, though, I think that makes it probably best to just always use explicit KiBs, and mibi/gibi/tebi/etc equivalents, in full or as unit abbreviations, because there might be people who haven't got the memo/don't know whether ''you'' got the memo, otherwise. And at least there's a chance that even those unaware of "FOObibytes" will try to find out what these are... unless they just mistake them for typos or read them unconsciously wrongly, but then there's probably more problems than just assuming the wrong base-multiple... ;) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.54|172.70.86.54]] 17:26, 3 October 2023 (UTC) | :As a general hint to people, though, I think that makes it probably best to just always use explicit KiBs, and mibi/gibi/tebi/etc equivalents, in full or as unit abbreviations, because there might be people who haven't got the memo/don't know whether ''you'' got the memo, otherwise. And at least there's a chance that even those unaware of "FOObibytes" will try to find out what these are... unless they just mistake them for typos or read them unconsciously wrongly, but then there's probably more problems than just assuming the wrong base-multiple... ;) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.54|172.70.86.54]] 17:26, 3 October 2023 (UTC) | ||
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