silent-service @ 31.05.2011, 07:35
amused by some reduction units "MiB" - also known as Megabytes, "KiB" - he kilobytes.
As you noticed, there are MB and CB and IIB and KiB.
and mega kilo - decimal SI prefixes, which it turns out that 1 kilobyte = 1000 bytes and 1 megabyte = 1000 kilobytes, that is not true for the measurement of binary information
KIBI and mebi - IEC binary prefixes, which kibibyte 1 = 1024 bytes and 1 mebibytes = 1024 kibibyte that
right for binary information
more details here
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B2%...%B2%D0%BA%D0%B8Binary prefix used everywhere except Vind (in fact there are too binary, but written as a decimal). Just decimal prefixes are intentionally used for writing media volume - buying a hard drive, though, a 500 GB, you have actually only about 470.
Post has been editeddvoriki06 - 22.06.11, 23:37Reason for editing: + from Dogom