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		ygra on April 6, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is 1 GB equal to 10^9 bytes instead of 2^30? http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2009/06/11/97253... It's a tricky topic and as Raymond correctly points out, giving people a term that they don't understand probably serves little to no good purpose.

tatref on April 6, 2014 [–]

I don't think that giving the users something that _is_ wrong is a better solution... Why not switching to GiB? Power users would understand, and others wouldn't even notice!

FigBug on April 6, 2014 | [–]

Why not switch to actual GB like the OS X did. I'm not sure why anybody prefers GiB.

tatref on April 6, 2014 | | [–]

Either way, as long as GB = 10^9, and GiB = 2^30

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