April 25, 2004
Tech > Megabytes vs. Mebibytes
Cybotix on Slashdot writes:
actually the correct term for 1,024 bytes is mebibyte, for 1,048,576 bytes is gibibyte. mega/giga are decimal prefixes, so 1 megabyte = 1000 bytes, and 1000 megabytes = 1 gigabyte. (google calculator is using the old convention)
Sure enough, he's right. See this NIST page.
Posted by lesjones
No.
Actually,
1,024 bytes is a kibibyte.
1,048,576 is a mebibyte.
and
2 ^ 30 bytes is a gibibyte.
and 1000 bytes is a (metric or decimal) kilobyte, not a megabyte.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte
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Marcio.