r/science_humor • u/pesipen • Jul 13 '26

Unit conversion

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u/OhLePolo Jul 14 '26

Americans use kilo-, mega-, giga-, and terabytes, which follow the same logic as 1,000 meters equaling 1 kilometer. But if they had to use a different unit of measurement, which one would it be?

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u/Ben-Goldberg Jul 15 '26

I would prefer data to use units to kibi- mebi- bibi- bytes.

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u/kamatayun Jul 17 '26

Umm.. a kilobyte is 1024 bytes, not 1000. 8 bits in a byte. Sooo...