Mastodawn

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.

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Admiral Memo Mar 10

@NanoRaptor Mainly because no one but people hard into computing knows what "kibi" means.

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Sylvhem Mar 10

@AdmiralMemo To be fair, no one but people into computing would think a kilo could mean 1024 in the first place.

@NanoRaptor

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downbeatdan

@NanoRaptor @Sylvhem @AdmiralMemo To be fair, anyone growing up with the US imperial system would be conditioned that none of the conversions of anything into anything are nice round numbers. Anyone growing up with the metric system knows it's all 10, 100, 1000.