On 2019-11-15 6:55 a.m., NY wrote:
"Ralph Fox" wrote in message
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On Thu, 14 Nov 2019 19:22:51 -0600, Rene Lamontagne wrote:

Subject: Gibibyte
Why in hell do we need that? (Just to ruin my remaining day's I
Suppose).

Giga = 1,000,000,000Â*Â* (decimal, a power of 10: 10^9Â* -- SI units)
Gibi = 1,073,741,824Â*Â* (binary,Â* a power of 2:Â* 2^30Â* -- IEC units)


Gibi is now 21 years old.
https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

The problem is not with the concept - which is very laudable - but the
names. "Mebibyte", "gibibyte" and "tebibyte" sound like someone with a
speech impediment (*) trying to say "megabyte", "gigabyte" and "terabyte".


(*) Think of Spitting Image's caricature of Roy "Splattersly" Hattersley
;-)

They sound like someone who just came out of the dentists with their
mouth still frozen. :-)

Rene