On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 12:44, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Alan Shutko wrote: > > > > uhm, what are "MiB"'s? > > > > One of the more stupid sounding standards to be foisted on the public. > > That's great. How bout a helpful answer?
A MiB is a mibibyte, and a KiB is a kibibyte. MiB == 2^20 bytes, KiB == 2^10 bytes. By contrast, a MB, or megabyte, == 10^6 bytes and a KB, or kilobyte, == 10^3 bytes. This means that megabyte is now consistent with mega-anything-else, 10^6. The mibi and kibi prefixes recently became international standards. -jwb
