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gibi

How to use gibi in a sentence. Live example sentences for gibi pulled from indexed public discussions.

Editorial note

The proper prefixes for 2^30 and 2^50 are gibi and pebi, not, as you point out, giga and peta.

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Quick take

The proper prefixes for 2^30 and 2^50 are gibi and pebi, not, as you point out, giga and peta.

Example sentences

1

The proper prefixes for 2^30 and 2^50 are gibi and pebi, not, as you point out, giga and peta.

2

Most network equipment I've worked with reported throughput with incorrectly labeled kibi/mibi/gibi, and the ISP uses kilo/mega/giga.

3

The mebi-/gibi-/...-byte (metric) definition was standardized rather late (late 90's).

4

İnternet protokolü üzerinden çalışan bu sistem, kullanıcılara yüksek kaliteli film, dizi, spor ve belgesel gibi geniş bir içerik yelpazesi sunar.

5

Personally I feel the pushback against gibi/mibi/kibi overblown.

6

My tl;dr: it varies, you can never trust it unless it's specified in kibi/mebi/gibi/etc., in which case you know at least it's one camp and not the other.

7

(Nowadays I use Emacs Calc, but I still add a bunch of my own units, like the binary prefixes like mebi, gibi, etc.) I suspect that a lot more can convert millilightseconds to miles out-of-the-box now at least in part because of the popularity of this story over the past 13 years.

Quote examples

1

Borrow a meme from the “almost SI” prefixes kibi, mebi, gibi etc., and call it a mibi, perhaps?

2

I have yet to hear anyone say "kibi" or "gibi" that wasn't mocking the term.

3

But then these fing idiots went on to define ”mibi bytes” and ”gibi bytes”, when there already existed perfectly valid and used nomenclature: meg and gig!

4

It defines both "giga" and "gibi" as 2^30!

Proper noun examples

1

Every new run will create a new pack along with its.idx (which means that some packs may be quasi-empty) and the size of packs is capped at 1GB (Giga, not Gibi).

2

Like their Hibi-Gibi Punch with Sake is $6.

3

Measuring using base-2 (what we would now call Kibi, Mebi, Gibi) 2.

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How do you use gibi in a sentence?

The proper prefixes for 2^30 and 2^50 are gibi and pebi, not, as you point out, giga and peta.