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Poll: Do you like the SI Binary Prefixes?

Chaotic42

Chaotic42

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I've never been a huge fan of the SI units. Lately I see a lot of people using the SI binary prefixes (MiB for Mibibytes, etc). I get the point of it, they just sound... weird.

So what do you think? Do you like them or not?
 
It's going to take some getting used to.

I would prefer to keep the decimal names,even if they aren't technically correct. Most (technically literate) people understand the difference, anyway, between 1,024 bytes and 1 kilobyte.
 
We had to learn it for my microprocessors class and were tested on it, but since then we've never used it...just one of those things that's good to know I suppose.
 
there are so many concepts in physics that are agreed upon "by convention" and so-called natural units that are actually calibrated to fit the units we like. i don't understand why an administrative exception could not also be made for these binary units. if mebibyte is the technical term, it means that those who wish to be correct must use only that prefix. which means "megabyte" will what, never be used in the future? fuck that. megs and gigs are the preferred jargon. not mibz and fibz or kibz, that is nothing but gay.
 
I've never heard of them until now. I'd rather people just fucking use 1024 kilobytes = 1 megabyte and whatnot.
 
Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mibibyte

Its the reason hard drives appear smaller than their label shows. Its because they consider 1000 bytes to be a mb, where the rest of the world uses 1024
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...except for communications systems, which commonly use the convention that 1000 bytes is a kilobyte.

Also you meant kilobyte, not megabyte.
 
Originally posted by: ADDAvenger
Originally posted by: MichaelD
What's a "mibibyte?" 😕
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:laugh:

As for the Prefixes, they rank about as high on my level as neighborhood abbreviations to make areas sounds trendy. E.g. SoHa, SoHo, NoLIta, TriBeCa.
 
These are new? You mean you're seeing them used a few more places?

I dislike them. *ibi___ is just stupid. It's like we're be told to eat kid's cereal.

I hope ram manufacturers don't start using them.
 
Originally posted by: alyarb
i love SI units i just hate these.
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I never really cared for some of the SI decisions. It would be nice to have symmetry in the prefixes around one. Deca/Deci is fine. I'd like to see Hecto/Hecti, Kilo/Kili, etc. Prefixes greater than one are caps, less than one are lower case. If you can only use one case, use HH, KK, MM, etc for greater than one.

I'd also remove Celcius and just use Kelvin, swtich to binary time... I don't know. I guess it doesn't really matter as long as everything is standardized.

 
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