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[return to "1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?"]
1. quotem+xc[view] [source] 2026-02-03 17:45:54
>>surpri+(OP)
It's too late. Powers-of-two won. I'm the sort of person who uses "whom" in English, but even I acknowledge that using "KB" to mean 1,000, not 1,024, can only breed confusion. The purpose of language is to communicate. I'm all for pedantry when it's compatible with clarity, but we can't reconcile the two goals here.
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2. eviks+uy[view] [source] 2026-02-03 19:08:04
>>quotem+xc
No it didn't, look at your flash/hard drive labels. Also, there has been confusion since the beginning, and the core cause of confusion is refusing to use the common meaning of K, so insisting on that is just perpetuating said confusion
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