KiB, MiB etc
Runa Bhattacharjee
runab at redhat.com
Wed Nov 12 07:04:41 UTC 2008
Hi,
The Fedora Documentation has references to the following unit of measurements which are different
from the more common Kilo(bit/byte), Mega(bit/byte) etc., depending upon context.
Kib = Kibibit [1]
KiB = Kibibyte
Mib = Mebibit
MiB = Mebibyte
etc.
since this was something new for me, I thought I'd like to pass on the message in case there are
more people writing the full forms of these acronyms. Please do note the differing usage of
capitalizations.
hth
regards
Runa
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibit (links for all the above and others available from this page)
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