• BmeBenji@lemm.eeOP
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        7 months ago

        Yeah, American stuff makes sense unlike the metric system which is completely unintuitive /s

        This whole post is meant to be a joke. The metric prefixes are perfectly understandable even if they’re technically off the decimal benchmarks by a handful of bytes

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          7 months ago

          Metric is intuitive, but also shit. Just because you have 10 fingers doesn’t mean you should formulate a measurement system out of it. In fact if you actually give a shit about intuitiveness you’d go back to the American system which is roughly base 12 and therefore easier for division and manual estimations.

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      7 months ago

      K/M/G/T/P = decimal prefixes. K is 1000. M is 1,000,000. etc.

      Ki/Mi/Gi/Ti/Pi = binary prefixes. Ki is 2¹⁰ (1024), Mi is 2²⁰ (1,048,576), etc.

      It’s a disambiguation of the previous system where we would use KB to interchangeably mean 1000 or 1024 depending on context.