kibibyte

The second half of the article is entirely about kibibyte and the other IEC units.

I'd rather get the 147.5 kibibyte MP4 over the 399.2 kibibyte GIF on my mobile.

Everybody (to within experimental error) refers to 1024 bytes as a kilobyte, not a kibibyte.

People who say things like kibibyte usually have no sense of humor, and no tolerance for inconsistencies.

People also might wish that others use kibibyte any time they reference 1024 bytes, but that is also wishful thinking.

Kilobyte 1000 bytes, symbol: kB Kilobyte (kibibyte) for 1024 bytes, symbol: KB or KiB Same for all other prefixes.

For the foreseeable future, kilobyte will remain an ambiguous term, and kibibyte will very often not be used when someone is referring to 1024 bytes.

Call me calcitrant, reactionary, or whatever, but I will not say kibibyte out loud.

Knuth thought the international standard promulgated naming (kibibyte) was DOA.

If Explorer were to switch to the term kibibyte, it would merely be showing users information in a form they cannot understand, and for what purpose?

Might want to consider using the unambiguous term kibibyte instead.

Unless you're a strict follower of the IEC standard, in which case k = 1000, and what I was talking about was a kibibyte.

The word "octet" is absolutely the kibibyte of "bits in a byte".

I.e., base-2, today named "kibibyte" though in that day that word didn't exist yet & it was just a kilobyte and the base 2 inferred from context.

"Kibibyte" just sounds a bit silly when said out loud.

To be honest, I think the power-ten SI people might have won the war against the power-two people if they'd just chosen a prefix that sounded slightly less ridiculous than "kibibyte".

Kibibyte doesn't make things clearer in this case.