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From: n04W44+mgk25@cl.cam.ac.uk (Markus Kuhn)
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Subject: Binary prefixes in Google's calculator
Date: 30 Oct 2004 12:15:18 GMT
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Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> writes:
|> > A cursory Google shows that a lot of people think it primarily means
|> > gibi in computing!
|> 
|> When I want to know how mistaken how many people are, I also use Google.

Type "1 gigabyte in bytes" and "1 gigabyte in gibibyte" into Google
and see what its (fully gibi aware) calculator thinks ... :(

Even worse, try "1 kilobit/second in bit/second".

Markus

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