Chris 🇹🇼 | Telegram 尼有事嗎 => YSITD: In Windows … Windows assumes that there are 1024 Bytes in a Kilobyte unit, and 1024 Kilobytes in a Megabyte unit etc. In Ubuntu (GNU/Linux) … Ubuntu assumes, a 1000 bytes constitute a Kilobyte (KB) unit, 1000 Kilobytes for a Megabyte (MB) and so on. This ‘confusion’ has come into existence in the old days, due to various computer storage hardware devices, such as ‘RAM’ and ‘ROM’ using 1024 as the ‘unit prefix’ (due to technical reasons) when converting between units (except for ‘bytes’). But most other storage devices such as HDDs and Flash drives, using 1000 as the base ‘unit prefix’, while calculating the sizes. So there rose a bit of a confusion among the experts, which to use while displaying file sizes in different units. #577f357689fa698810032b0a

Chris 🇹🇼 | Telegram 尼有事嗎 says to YSITD

In Windows … Windows assumes that there are 1024 Bytes in a Kilobyte unit, and 1024 Kilobytes in a Megabyte unit etc. In Ubuntu (GNU/Linux) … Ubuntu assumes, a 1000 bytes constitute a Kilobyte (KB) unit, 1000 Kilobytes for a Megabyte (MB) and so on. This ‘confusion’ has come into existence in the old days, due to various computer storage hardware devices, such as ‘RAM’ and ‘ROM’ using 1024 as the ‘unit prefix’ (due to technical reasons) when converting between units (except for ‘bytes’). But most other storage devices such as HDDs and Flash drives, using 1000 as the base ‘unit prefix’, while calculating the sizes. So there rose a bit of a confusion among the experts, which to use while displaying file sizes in different units.

at Fri, Jul 8, 2016 1:09 PM