Brainlets will defend this

a metric byte is 10 bits

Serious question, are you trying to be funny or are you trying to bait serious replies?

I honestly can't tell.

>>62426714
>what is base-2

you're the real brainlet

>>62426781
please, you can just make 1024i = 1000m just like 212F = 100C.

>>62426781
/thread

>>62426714
The power of twos have nothing to do with the imperial system, fa.m

>imperial bytes
>metric bytes
Can't tell if trolling or retarded, but anyway: SI prefixes are only defined as powers of 10 in the context of SI unit system. Byte is not an SI unit. A kilobyte is, has always been and will always be 2^10. Whoever claims otherwise (including HDD manufacturers' marketing department jews who were the first to ever question that) or insists on using the retarded kibi/gibi/tibi prefixes can go fuck themselves.

>>62426963
1TB = 1000GB = 1000000MB

>>62426963
>fuck otherwise universally understood terms, we're gonna redefine them as we see fit

>>62426714
>metric
>bytes

>>62426714
Boolean arithmetic doesn't give a shit about your "muh deca" bullshit

>>62426963
>Byte is not an SI unit
Then why the fuck is it using SI prefixes.
Kilo LITERALLY means times 1000. That's the definition. You don't get to redefine something that's been in use for so long.

>>62426963
How about kilowatt-hour or kilocalorie you dumb burgerposter

>>62426714
desu I don't know why we settled on octets for bytes instead of dectets

Kilobyte: 2^10
Megabyte: 2^20
Gigabyte: 2^30

Seems perfectly smooth to me.

>>62426714
> imperial bytes

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>>62427438
>Two to the power of a decimal number
How about fucking 1000^0, 1000^1, 1000^2, 1000^3

>>62427030
kilo literally means "a thousand" as in decimal 1000.

>>62427428

because powers of 2?

>>62427483
Why? 2^(log_1000(si)*10) works fine.

>>62427485
I know. Except, for some reason, when used to measure bytes, which is what the faggot I was replying to was defending and I was calling stupid.

>>62426714
Fuck off retards and fuck off neo-/g/ for falling for shit bait.

Why does this thread even exist or get's non-saged replies?

>>62427030
That's exactly what consumer electronics manufacturers said at one point. For decades up to then it was universally understood that a 1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes.

>>62427273
>Then why the fuck is it using SI prefixes.
Because computer scientists who first felt the need to quantify memory units decided to borrow them to name "close enough" powers of 2 in their field. What they didn't predict is interested in the field in 2017 will be a bunch of brainlets unable to comprehend that simple distinction.

>>62426837
Fahrenheit is obsolete and not needed anymore. You even should use Kelvin in scientific papers, m8.

>>62427538
Man you're smart, which in your context means fucking retarded

>>62427482
henceforth i shall call 1024 bytes an imperial kilobyte

>>62427538
>"close enough" powers of 2
Except as we're seeing now they're not "close enough" anymore. By the time you get to petabytes (which is fast approaching) it's a just under 12.5% difference in actual capacity with 2^10 based prefixes vs 10^3 based prefixes, and it's only going to get worse from there.

Ironically it was also the IEC that came up with the binary prefixes you're refusing to use.

when possible i write KiB to make it clear that i'm dealing with 1024 bytes, but i can never bring myself to say a word as stupid as "kibibyte"

>>62427758
I can't bring myself to say "foot" unironically to mean distance, but my solution isn't to say "meters" while giving the number of feet

>>62426714
>the current state of /g/

>>62426714
Oh look, it's a shill trying to fuck me out of my extra bytes! I always check on this with any storage devices I buy. If the manufacturer is measuring a GB as 1000MB they can go fuck themselves.

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>>62428283
why the anger?

>>62426714
If the imperial system was good enough for the Romans it's good enough for me