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si units are cool with how you can say really big things, like a megameter, and also really small things, like a nanometer, and its nbd and you don't have to learn weird units like arctangents and lindstrõms then computers came and for ram and files they kind of used si units, but with different numbers, so in computrespeak a kiloram is 1024 rams. of course this made a lot of users complain when their "1GB" files weren't actually 109 bytes. but luckily someone made the binary prefixes, so now you can say a "gibibyte" (GiB) and there's no confusion it sounds a bit strange, but so do the si prefixes. i mean seriously, "yotta", who came up with that one? i think this is great and when we convert to metric bytes 7kb/s will finally == 0.7kB/s, but apparently some people still think that mega should mean different numbers for different things, like idk maybe a megaweed would mean 420 weeds, so i made this thread so we could discuss and decide this once and for all, thanks for reading!
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well gently caress, what happened to my checkboxes 
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Sep 19, 2014 01:39
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SI prefixes are dumb, like this thread
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Sep 19, 2014 01:41
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oh, well, may the best option win!
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People are able to count to 1023 using just their fingers. Because 10 fingers and binary.
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Sep 19, 2014 01:47
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SI prefixes are dumb france is dumb the op is dumb i'm dumb
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gas for bringing this GBS poo poo into yospos
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