Friday, October 26, 2007

Names for 10^n and 2^n

At least in the U.S.A. people in the hardware and software industries routinely use the 10^n names instead of using the 2^n names. Disk makers use the 10^n names too. See here for the difference between a Gigabyte and a GibiByte along with a table for other powers. Someone wrote a System Monitor for FC7 and they used the GiB (2^n) instead of the GB (10^n) notation.
Posted by Nanoflux at 5:29 PM

1 comment:

murtini said...

The pebibyte is brought to you by Post Cereals, makers of Fruity Pebbles and Cocoa Pebbles. Barney's gonna need 2^50 bytes to store his hunger, 'cause Fred's not gonna let him have his Pebbles!

October 27, 2007 at 12:28 PM

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