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CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 8 hours agoFactors of 10 are overrated. Mebibtyes are objectively a better measure than megabytes.
Comment on smh
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 8 hours agoFactors of 10 are overrated. Mebibtyes are objectively a better measure than megabytes.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
Only for data and that’s a quirk of organising binary data in bytes. Factors of whatever your base is are better. Don’t think we’re going to be moving away from base 10 for volume or distance or power.
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I dunno, a half cup is 8 tablespoons, quarter cup is 4 tablespoons, an eighth cup is 2 tablespoons. A half liter is 5 deciliters, a quarter liter is 2.5 deciliters, an eighth liter is 1.25 deciliters. In cooking I’m much more likely to use binary arrangements than decimal, and the fact that metric users would use milliliters instead of deciliters makes me think that ten isn’t really the magic number it’s cracked up to be.