Tag Archives: MiB

A modest proposal for a more natural KB

Posted on March 14, 2016 by brucedawson

I recently wrote a blog post saying that I thought Windows Explorer should use the more natural base-10 meanings of the kB/MB/GB/TB prefixes, instead of the base-2 meanings that are a few percent larger. I convinced nobody. I was told, … Continue reading →

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Base Ten For (Almost) Everything

Posted on February 13, 2016 by brucedawson

It’s 2016 and Windows still displays drive and file sizes using base-2 size prefixes. My 1 TB SSD is shown as 916 GB, and a 449 million byte video file is shown as 428 MB. That is, Windows still insists … Continue reading →

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