On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 01:34:54PM -0700, Dave Scotese via bitcoin-dev wrote: > I have seen "1M" mean 1,000,000 bytes as well as 1,048,576bytes and > 1,024,000 bytes. I believe the best policy is to use "megabyte" to mean > 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes. Kb always means 1024 bytes, even when a lot people > round it, so I like the K spec best. I also see value in having human > readable data. The spec should nail down these details.
The IEC standard is to use the prefix MiB for 2^20 bytes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix -- 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org 000000000000000010f9e95aff6454fedb9d0a4b92a4108e9449c507936f9f18
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