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Re: [Duplicity-talk] man page, bits and bytes
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Peter Valdemar Morch |
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Re: [Duplicity-talk] man page, bits and bytes |
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Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:26:05 +0100 |
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Kenneth Loafman
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> Good catch. It should be MB. Not even sure what a MiB is.
Strictly speaking, using standard SI prefixes for powers of 2 is confusing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1541
One MB = 10^6 bytes. One MiB = 2^20 bytes.
Strictly speaking.
Peter
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