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[Yuri]

I love power of 2 :)

And in our kilometer is 1024 m ;)


08.12.2017 1:40, Antony Stone пишет:
> 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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