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Therefore, use IEC 60027 prefixes like kibi-, because they are the ones that reflect the binary nature of computers.

This unnecessary bikeshedding nonsense has already been solved by using mebi, kibi, etc.

IEC 60027 prefixes are correct: there is no ambiguity when kibi- (Ki) is defined as 1024, and it can coexist beside kilo- meaning 1000.

Yep Its kilo and kibi notation, nothing like a bug.

That’s basically what Kibi et al is though.

That appears to be the size of the list itself, not including the objects it contains: 8 bytes per entry for the object pointer, and a kilo-to-kibi conversion.

Approximating metric prefixing with kibi, Mibi, Gibi...

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

The kibi-mebi people failed to predict human behavior; that they cannot just roll out a vocabulary change to all of humanity the way you roll out a new kernel throughout a machine cluster.

> Yes, and the made up words of kilo and kibi were given specific definitions by the people who made them up Good for them.

Otherwise correct, but the real real traditional Japanese diet was barley (mugi), millet (kibi/hie) and sorghum (awa), not just white rice, which was an unaffordable luxury for many peasants.

> Therefore, use IEC 60027 prefixes like kibi-, No.

I suspect that a world which standardized on kibi = 1024 would be a world which abandoned the word "kilobyte" altogether.

In spoken language I also don't like the awkward and unusual pronunciation of "kibi".

The mistake was using the "Kibi" prefix.

Kibi however is completely made up shit used by noone else and it sounds like a wannabe cartoon character.

Kibi- is fine, the phonetics sound slightly silly to native English speakers, but the 'bi' indicates binary and I think that's reasonable.

Kibi is not any weirder than yotta, pico, or deci.