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[-] thantik@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

We should change to mibibits! We need easily factored numbers of 10, not this old powers of 2 stuff! (/s if it wasn't obvious)

[-] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Sarcasm noted, but: mibi/gibi are the powers of 2 version.

We all say megabit or gigabit when talking about internet speeds, but in many cases under the hood it's actually measured in mibi/gibibits. Just means it's 2% more when converted into base 10 ;)

[-] ripcord@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Good point on the first part. On the second... There's very little networking stuff that isn't pretty much handled in powers of 10 everywhere. I mean, eventually every number gets handled as binary at some point, but otherwise it's pretty rare for network values to get converted to some power-of-2 number.

Way more common is the stupid bits/bytes confusion.

this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2023
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