mebibyte

I think "mebibyte" etc. have the same issue.

Just a small correction: the abbreviated form of mebibyte is MiB.

Hm, on the metadata page [0], the size is less than a mebibyte, and there's only about 18 bytes per row. Is this a compressed size, or have rows been redacted?

A little off topic, but since it's on the page: Is it only me or does "mebibyte" simply look wrong? You can't just decide that people aren't supposed to say "megabyte" anymore

The replacement terms of 'kibibyte', 'mebibyte' etc. do not appear to have gained widespread adoption.

Because the existence of mebibyte only makes 'mega' even more ambiguous. You used to be able to know from context.

The real megabyte page says that it has multiple meanings, and the mebibyte page says that "it was designed to replace the megabyte" and that "it is not commonly used". And I'll assume the sources listed are suitable for the moment.

You can have a 5 mebibyte, gibibyte or tebibyte objects, and they will still consume the same amount of mental capacity. The switch to a new wireless standard is not a cliff, it will happen gradually, there is no need to throw away everything at once.

It's probably a silly personal bias, but I will never be able to bring myself to pronounce out loud the words "gibibyte", "tebibyte", or even "mebibyte". I will actually say "binary gigabyte" before I say "gibibyte".

Because of this the same file will show a different size depending on whether you're using Windows or Mac. kilo- as a prefix denotes multiplication by a thousand, but tradition has made it necessary to introduce the kibibyte, mebibyte, etc.

The problem is that “kibibyte”, “mebibyte”, “gibibyte”, etc. are extremely ugly words whose existence is fundamentally offensive.

It's not a bad example because that definition was not in general use when the marketing practice started; at that time, kilobyte and megabyte had, in general use, exclusively the definitions later attached to kibibyte and mebibyte.

But for serious, that correction probably has taught more than 10 people the difference between uppercase B = bytes, lowercase b = bits, uppercase M = mega = 1 000 000, lowercase m = milli, MiB = mebibyte = 1024 x 1024 bytes = 1 048 576 bytes, or at least made them aware of the important fact there is a difference. while your pedantry about nitpicking has taught nobody anything except to always be alert cause there's people like you that like to offload mental ballast and use wrong units because they insist their errors can be inferred and corrected from context...