On 2019-11-15 1:44 p.m., VanguardLH wrote:
NY wrote:

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".

I suspect "bi" was used to denote "binary". It gave a hint to the base.
^^ ^^

Instead of using wholly new magnitude prefixes that everyone would have
to learn and for which adoption would be slow, especially in the
computer industry where change is the norm, they wanted magnitude
prefixes that hinted at the old meanings, so people would instinctively
perceive the magnitude based on the old prefixes, but also hint that the
magnitude was binary instead of decimal.

What would you have come up for magnitude prefixes that represented
magnitudes similar to the decimal-based ones but hint it was a binary
prefix?


I have no idea, just not my forte.

Rene