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		Flimm 22 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes? Uppercase "B" stands for byte, and lowercase "b" stands for bit. But it's very common for people to miss the distinction, sadly, even professionals are sloppy.

Thrymr 21 days ago [–]

The bit/byte ambiguity annoys me in real life far more than the 1000/1024 ambiguity.

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