@[email protected] to Programmer [email protected] • 1 year agoKB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?message-square196fedilinkarrow-up1395
arrow-up1395message-squareKB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?@[email protected] to Programmer [email protected] • 1 year agomessage-square196fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•1 year agoDec = 10 Cent = 100 Mil = 1000 Using historical, global linear language sounds good to me https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeral_prefix
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•1 year agoMetric uses those for numbers less than 1, a situation that doesn’t arrise in computing. There is nothing less than a bit, whether its set to 1 or 0.
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilink2•1 year agoIf you wanna be American, you gotta start thinking outside the box. A bit has two states, right? So a half-bit has only one state. Half-bits are truly American.
Dec = 10 Cent = 100 Mil = 1000
Using historical, global linear language sounds good to me
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeral_prefix
Metric uses those for numbers less than 1, a situation that doesn’t arrise in computing. There is nothing less than a bit, whether its set to 1 or 0.
If you wanna be American, you gotta start thinking outside the box. A bit has two states, right? So a half-bit has only one state. Half-bits are truly American.
All hail Analog! ;P