Thread: Kibibytes and Gibibytes
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Old 20-04-2009, 17:55   #9
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Re: Kibibytes and Gibibytes
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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
Feast your eyes on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefix

Kilo is from the Greek chilia, which means 'thousand'.
Thats a good point actually, i never thought of it like that.
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