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Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 8 months ago

KB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?

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KB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?

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Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 8 months ago

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Fractional bits come up in non-deterministic situation, sometimes.
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  Just use fractions, like with inches. ⅞
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    See, that’s actually the one thing I really like about imperial. Binary subdivisions are good.

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