Thanks Ryan. That sucks, quite apart from the woeful UX of MiB.
Mebibyte? Really? Kibibyte? Gibibyte? It sounds like a toddler demanding a smartphone. "Oh how we laughed when people took us seriously!” -- Peter West p...@pbw.id.au “My soul magnifies the Lord…” > On 15 Aug 2017, at 8:41 pm, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote: > > > On Aug 14, 2017, at 19:04, Peter West wrote: > >> When I see MiB, I think million bytes. Is this wrong? > > Yes, that is wrong, or at least is not what other people mean. > > 1 MB = one megabyte = 10^6 bytes = 1,000,000 bytes > 1 MiB = one mebibyte (what we used to call one megabyte) = 2^20 bytes = > 1,048,576 bytes > > Same goes for the other units (kibibytes, gibibytes, tebibytes, etc.). > > See: > > - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix > - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte > >
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