alt Hacker NewsOne thing that annoys me is:
Why don’t kilobyte continue to mean 1024 and introduce kilodebyte to mean 1000. Byte, to me implies a binary number system, and if you want to introduce a new nomenclature to reduce confusion, give the new one a new name and let the older of more prevalent one in its domain keep the old one…
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pif • yesterday at 6:18 PM
> Why don’t kilobyte continue to mean 1024
Because it never did!
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Because kilo- already has a meaning. And both usages of kilobyte were (and are) in use. If we are going to fix the problem, we might as well fix it right.