Comment on Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 4 months agoYou can’t store data in base 10, nor address memory or storage in base 10 given present computers. It’s a bit more than a matter of opinion that computers are base 2
meekah@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yes computers are base 2 but we can still make up whatever rules we want about them. We could even make up rules that say that we are to consider everything a computer does to be in base 10 but it can only use the lowest 2 values of any given digit. It would be a total mess and it would make no sense whatsoever but we could define those rules.