I often find myself explaining the same things in real life and online, so I recently started writing technical blog posts.

This one is about why it was a mistake to call 1024 bytes a kilobyte. It’s about a 20min read so thank you very much in advance if you find the time to read it.

Feedback is very much welcome. Thank you.

  • DrPop@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    I know it’s already been explained but here is a visualization of why.

    0 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024

    • wischi@programming.devOP
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      11 months ago

      Did you read the blog post? If you don’t find the time you should at least read “(Un)lucky coincidence” to see why it’s not (and never was) a bright idea to call 1024 “a kilo”.