Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > A MiB is a mibibyte, and a KiB is a kibibyte.
Almost, except for spelling. It's "mebibyte", not "mibibyte". But "kibibyte" is correct. > 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. Which is a good thing, I think. > The mibi and kibi prefixes recently became international standards. See, for example, http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html Craig
