On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:52 AM, cdb <colin@btech-online.co.uk> wrote:
>
> They have provided a table explaining, =A0Kibi, Mebi, Gibi, Tebi and
> Pebibyte.
>
> If this is fact, then that fudge is almost as bad as the ridiculous
> IEEE logic symbols.
>

The following links may shed some lights.
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
"Faced with this reality, the IEEE Standards Board decided that IEEE
standards will use the conventional, internationally adopted, definitions
of the SI prefixes. Mega will mean 1 000 000, except that the base-two
definition may be used (if such usage is explicitly pointed out on a
case-by-case basis) until such time that prefixes for binary multiples
are adopted by an appropriate standards body."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte

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