• buddascrayon@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Does anyone ever actually use those prefixes? I’ve personally just couched the difference into bytes vs bits.

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      17 days ago

      Bytes vs bits is a completely different discrepency that usually comes up with bandwidth measurements.

      So there are: Kilobytes, Kibibytes, Kilobits, and Kibibits

    • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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      17 days ago

      Pretty much only when talking about the difference like here. 🙃