• kbal
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    204 months ago

    1 American short kilobyte = 0.9766 kilobytes

    • @[email protected]
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      4 months ago

      I assume this is meant as a joke, but my pedantic ass can’t let it slide. 0.9766 kilobytes, or 976.6 bytes doesn’t make much sense unless we are assuming a rounding error because that would require a fraction of a bit which is indivisible.

      I’m assuming you were comparing kilobytes (KB) to kibibytes (KiB). A kilobyte is decimal based, so it is 1000 bytes. A kibibyte, which is binary based, is 2^10 bytes, i.e. 1024 bytes. And so a kilobyte is ~0.9766 kibibytes.

    • Jolteon
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      104 months ago

      Also known as the drive makers kilobyte.