What is the difference between a kibibyte, a kilobit, and a kilobyte?
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This question got me wondering about the differences between these three ways of measuring size: a kibibyte, a kilobit, and the conventional kilobyte. I understand that these measurements have different uses (data transfer rate is measured in bits/sec), but I'm not quite sure if I can tell the diff…
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It's the same way with any SI prefix; (1x103), (1x106), (1x109), so, by extension: The only ones that are a bit different are the IEC Binary Prefixes (kibi/mebi/gibi etc.), because they are in base 2, not base 10 (e.g. all numbers equal 2something i…
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