Comment on Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes
charonn0@startrek.website 5 months ago
Because SI prefixes are always powers of the base. Base 10 is the most common, but that’s more human psychology that math.
Comment on Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes
charonn0@startrek.website 5 months ago
Because SI prefixes are always powers of the base. Base 10 is the most common, but that’s more human psychology that math.
wischi@programming.dev 5 months ago
SI prefixes are literally just base ten and not really about human psychology.
victorz@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think they mean it’s easier to refer to powers of 1000 with the SI units, rather than of 1024 as with Kibi and the lot. Especially higher up in the prefixes, because it starts to diverge more and more from the expected value.