I often find myself explaining the same things in real life and online, so I recently started writing technical blog posts.

This one is about why it was a mistake to call 1024 bytes a kilobyte. It’s about a 20min read so thank you very much in advance if you find the time to read it.

Feedback is very much welcome. Thank you.

  • wischi@programming.devOP
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    1 year ago

    KiB and MiB are not SI prefixes but IEC binary prefixes but the names are derived from the SI names for simplicity.