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. -- "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think «I know, I'll use regular expressions.» Now they have two problems." --Jamie Zawinsk ************************** * C++: Bug to the future * **************************
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