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Richard M

13-05-2005 03:12

MiB?

Am I missing something?
What's all this about putting an extra "i" in the middle of MB?
www.hexus.net are at it 24/7 in their news articles (example) and my BitTorrent client does it too.

What happened to just using "MB" to represent one megabyte?

Paul	13-05-2005 03:54

Re: MiB?

Possibly they mean 1,000,000 bytes rather than 1,048,576 ?

deadite66

13-05-2005 08:34

Re: MiB?

i thought MiB was part of snmp OIDs

philip.j.fry

13-05-2005 09:48

Re: MiB?

Confused me to, but I found this

Quote:

In December 1998, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) approved a new IEC International Standard. Instead of using the metric prefixes for multiples in binary code, the new IEC standard invented specific prefixes for binary multiples made up of only the first two letters of the metric prefixes and adding the first two letters of the word "binary". Thus, for instance, instead of Kilobyte (KB) or Gigabyte (GB), the new terms would be kibibyte (KiB) or gibibyte (GiB). The new IEC International Standards, which are not commonly used yet, are included below.

From http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/calculate/

SMHarman

13-05-2005 11:23

Re: MiB?

There was me thinking this was a thread about the Galaxy defenders.

Ramrod

13-05-2005 11:26

Re: MiB?

Me too..........obviously I'm not geek enough! :D

Paul K

13-05-2005 11:32

Re: MiB?

Gibibyte? Gibberish is closer :erm:

Graham

13-05-2005 13:28

Re: MiB?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Richard M

Am I missing something?
What's all this about putting an extra "i" in the middle of MB?

Protecting your memory from the **** of the universe?! :D

zing_deleted

13-05-2005 13:42

Re: MiB?

There always confusing us by making things more confusing than they orginally confused

see what they done to me :geez:

greencreeper

13-05-2005 20:22

Re: MiB?

I have more self-respect than to use the terms kibibyte and gibibyte. I mean - please :rolleyes: What's the betting that the idiot that dreamt up the idea knows nothing about PCs?

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