Comment on Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes

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wischi@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

That’s true but the entire disk size is not an exact power of two that’s why binary prefixes (1024 conversation) don’t have any benefit whatsoever when it comes to hard drives. With memory it’s a bit different because other than with storage devices RAM size is always exactly a power of two.

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