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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish27•6 months agoI noticed recently that a Linux command mentioned in its manpage that it supported Q as a bit prefix and I had to stop to ponder the utility in encoding a million-billion Terabytes.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish44•6 months agoBut did they mean Quettabytes or Quebibytes? Because the difference is only around 250 000 times the size of the Internet.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•5 months agoOr, in other words, around 244 kibiInternets.
I noticed recently that a Linux command mentioned in its manpage that it supported Q as a bit prefix and I had to stop to ponder the utility in encoding a million-billion Terabytes.
But did they mean Quettabytes or Quebibytes? Because the difference is only around 250 000 times the size of the Internet.
Bah, that’s just a rounding error!
Or, in other words, around 244 kibiInternets.