Comments on 2018-03-26 Human-readable filesizes

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Summary: Apparently, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#Consumer_confusion|not everyone agrees]]. Also, I don't really care about IEC/SI prefixes . . .

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> Apparently, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#Consumer_confusion|not everyone agrees]]. Also, I don't really care about IEC/SI prefixes in this use case, I want to know whether the file is 10kB, 1MB or 10MB.
> -- Marcin Borkowski 2018-03-28 09:22 UTC


I prefer to shun the IEC binary prefixes and just use K, M, G etc. Context tells you that 1K=1024 and Ki is just redundant and/or treating the reader like an idiot.

– N 2018-03-27 16:13 UTC


Apparently, not everyone agrees. Also, I don’t really care about IEC/SI prefixes in this use case, I want to know whether the file is 10kB, 1MB or 10MB.

– Marcin Borkowski 2018-03-28 09:22 UTC