Comment on Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes
gens@programming.dev 5 months agoIt’s the size in bytes as the os sees it (and in SMART). And i do know how to use a calculator, thank you.
There is also no benefit to using 1000. Except to hdd makers.
wischi@programming.dev 5 months ago
There is a benefit in using 1000 because it’s consistent with all the other 1000 conventions from kg to gramm, km ti meter, etc. And you can do it in your head because we use a base 10 number system.
36826639 bytes are 36.826639 MB. But how many MiB? I don’t know, I couldn’t tell you without a calculator.
gens@programming.dev 5 months ago
You don’t have to know. It does not matter because your 8GB stick can’t fit 16 512MB files anyway. Funny enough it might fit 500MB files if it is FAT32.
Being consistent with base10 systems does not matter in real world usage. Literally nobody cared before the asshats changed it.