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>>surpri+(OP)
The author decidedly has expert syndrome -- they deny both the history and rational behind memory units nomenclature. Memory measurements evolved utilizing binary organizational patterns used in computing architectures. While a proud French pedant might agree with the decimal normalization of memory units discussed, it aligns more closely to the metric system, and it may have benefits for laypeople, it fails to account for how memory is partitioned in historic and modern computing.

>>waffle+pC
It’s not them denying it, it’s the LLM that generated this slop.

All they had to say was that the KiB et. al. were introduced in 1998, and the adoption has been slow.

And not “but a kilobyte can be 1000,” as if it’s an effort issue.

>>ozozoz+mY
They are managed by different standards organizations. One doesn't like the other encroaching on its turf. "kilo" has only one official meaning as a base-10 scalar.

>>kevin_+Uv1
Who was appointed as arbiter of meaning for kilo? And by what right?

>>NetMag+9s3
The International Bureau of Weights and Measures, by an agreement between 64 countries that has been in effect for 6 and a half decades by now, and currently officially used by countries representing approximately 95% of the world's population. The work itself started in 1875 with an agreement between 17 countries.

A little late to lawyer that...