• Bassman1805@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Sarcasm noted, but: mibi/gibi are the powers of 2 version.

      We all say megabit or gigabit when talking about internet speeds, but in many cases under the hood it’s actually measured in mibi/gibibits. Just means it’s 2% more when converted into base 10 ;)

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        1 year ago

        Good point on the first part. On the second… There’s very little networking stuff that isn’t pretty much handled in powers of 10 everywhere. I mean, eventually every number gets handled as binary at some point, but otherwise it’s pretty rare for network values to get converted to some power-of-2 number.

        Way more common is the stupid bits/bytes confusion.