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Subject:RE: Licence or license? From:peter -at- softwell -dot- co -dot- uk (Peter Hirons) To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 28 Nov 2002 14:43 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
> MiB=mebibyte (2 to the power 20, or 1,048,576 bytes)
>
> Similarly:
>
> KiB=kibibyte (2 to the power 10, or 1,024 bytes)
I've been in electronic engineering for over 30 years (and a technical
writer for 23 of those) and this is the first time I've seen these. Can
you quote a reference please.
In my experience MB nearly always means 1,048,576 bytes (unless it's
written by a hard disk marketing person :-) If it is critical, then
specify which you mean explicitly.
Sometimes k=1000 and K=1,024 (except in job adverts when they both mean
1000)
Peter
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