Comment on Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes
wischi@programming.dev 5 months agoSI prefixes are literally just base ten and not really about human psychology.
Comment on Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes
wischi@programming.dev 5 months agoSI 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.