I came across a functioning coder today asking if a kilogram was 1000 or 1024 grams.
Yes they did ask, yes they verified, yes they accepted 1000 grams.
I swear ten thousand years in the future some fucker will 'oops, black hole!' 'cos they began in comp sci and learned kilo = 1024 first and NOBODY WILL CATCH IT. Humanity will be WIPED OUT because YOU LOT KEPT THIS SHIT UP.
I vaguely remember something about #Apple several years ago changing from "byte" kb to "human" kb in their system dialogs etc. This was a minor change and may have been good on some level. Mostly ended questions like "why does it say 2 Gig here but only 195943567899 bytes lower down in the same dialog box?"
I never imagined the 1024 thing would work the other way... kilometer = 1024 meters. 😅
For those who aren't computer scientists, here is an explanation from Wikipedia...
"In some areas of information technology, particularly in reference to random-access memory capacity, kilobyte instead often refers to 1024 bytes. This arises from the prevalence of sizes that are powers of two in modern digital memory architectures...
The kibibyte is defined as 1024 bytes, avoiding the ambiguity issues of the kilobyte."
In other words, in #binary we count 1s, 2s, 4s, 8s, 16s, 32s, 64s, 128s, 254s, 512s, 1024s, etc.
I totally forgot (if I ever knew) about the #kibibyte!
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Richard Rathe