"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
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> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> > IIRC, somebody somewhere wanted to start calling it KiB or something
> > stupid for when you actually mean 2^10...

>   I think that "somebody somewhere" would be the International
> Electrotechnical Commission.
>
>   The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers also adopted
> the naming convention in their IEEE 1541-2002 standard, as well as the
> European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization.

Good intentions, but "kilo binary binary digit" - what were they smoking?

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