Do you use "kibibyte" as a unit of measurement in your programs?
2012年8月8日 · In the past few years, there has been a movement to use KiB ("kibibyte") to mean 1024 bytes, and change the meaning of kilobyte to be 1000 bytes, dooming us to many more …
memory - Gigabyte or Gibibyte (1000 or 1024)? - Stack Overflow
2016年12月3日 · The difference between units based on decimal and binary prefixes increases as a semi-logarithmic (linear-log) function—for example, the decimal kilobyte value is nearly 98% …
binary - Really 1 KB (KiloByte) equals 1024 bytes? - Stack Overflow
What you are seeing is a marketing stunt. Since non-technical people don't know the difference between Metric Meg, Gig, etc. against the binary Meg, Gig, etc. marketers for storage will use …
Kubernetes size definitions: What's the difference of "Gi" and "G"?
The kibibyte was designed to replace the kilobyte in those computer science contexts in which the term kilobyte is used to mean 1024 bytes. The interpretation of kilobyte to denote 1024 bytes, …
Why are Bytes talked about in powers of 2? - Stack Overflow
2016年9月7日 · 2^10 = 1KB, 2^20 = 1MB, etc. etc. Except, a byte is 8 bits so I do not understand why we are using powers of 2 as an explanation. To talk about Bits in powers of 2 I can …
How to correctly convert filesize in bytes into mega or gigabytes?
2016年7月8日 · The widely used 1024 bytes = 1 kilobyte should instead by called 1024 bytes = 1 Kibibyte (KiB), 1024 KiB = 1 Mebibyte (MiB), 1024 MiB = 1 Gibibyte (GiB) and so on. You can …
Why 1,000 bytes isn't enough to make 1 Kilobyte?
2015年9月7日 · It does make sense. Here is how : 1KB means 1KiloByte. 1 Kilo stands for 10^3. So,1KB means 1000 Bytes. not 1024 bytes. To circumvent the problem new units …
memory - Kilobytes or Kibibytes in GNU time? - Stack Overflow
We are doing some performance measurements including some memory footprint measurements. We've been doing this with GNU time. But, I cannot tell if they are measuring in kilobytes …
amazon web services - AWS KiB - bits or bytes? - Stack Overflow
2022年10月28日 · A system of units based on powers of 2 in which 1 kibibyte (KiB) is equal to 1,024 (i.e., 210) bytes is defined by international standard IEC 80000-13 and is supported by …
How many addressable bits are in 4 kilobytes of memory?
2015年1月11日 · 1 kilobyte is supposed to be 1000 bytes whereas 1 kibibyte is 2^10=1024. However, kibi* and related units never really caught on, so "kilobyte" almost always means …