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[Antony Stone]

On Thursday 07 December 2017 at 20:34:22, Yuri wrote:

> In our kilobyte - one thousand twenty-four bytes. :)

This has been the definition since the earliest days of computing (or at least, 
as soon as any computer had 1024 of anything...)

This (rather stupid-sounding, in my opinion) kibibyte stuff is a much more 
recently introduced term, and is basically only needed for marketing people.

2^10 is a much more natural quantity of anything to have in computer terms 
(since the whole system is based on binary) than 10^3 is, however 10^3 is a 
smaller number, therefore the marketing people can tell you that the product 
contains more of them.


Antony.

> 08.12.2017 1:29, Yuri пишет:
> > https://i.imgur.com/bDw1O2b.png
> > 
> > 08.12.2017 1:12, Ing. Pedro Pablo Delgado Martell пишет:
> >> I have been reading about the difference between a KB and a KiB,
> >> Kilobyte and Kibibyte respectively. According to several websites,
> >> also Google,  1KB = 1000 bytes and 1KiB = 1024 bytes. However, you
> >> guys say on /etc/squid/squid.conf this:
> >> 
> >> "Units accepted by Squid are:
> >> 
> >>         bytes - byte
> >> 
> >>         KB - Kilobyte (*1024 bytes*)
> >> "
> >> 
> >> This email is not for criticize your work, I'm only looking for some
> >> clearance because right now I'm confused about how Squid is really
> >> measuring files.

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