KiB

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#1

Ummm…
What is KiB and how can I change it?
please respond ASAP! Thank you

#2

KiB? What?

#3

I WAS trying to upload a pic from deviantart and it said there was too much KiB and, I dont know!!!

#4

Kibibytes

#5

did you make that up?

#6

dangit nevermind

#7

He isn’t making that up. It really is kibibyte. It’s a contraction of kilo binary byte. It was designed to replace kilobyte back in 2000 because the term “kilobyte” sends a false message. It makes you think a kilobyte should be 1000 bytes. But it’s not. It’s actually 1024 even though “kilo” means one-thousand. This is why they wanted to replace the term “kilobyte.”

#8

Wow, that’s some interesting stuff… kibibyte sounds funny too lol

#9

Wow, everyone in this thread has the same “Stop 1337 Speak” banner in their sig.

#10

Haha, that’s awesome!

#11

Also, there are other binary terms like kibibyte. Here is a list:
Decimal - Binary
Kilobyte - Kibibyte
Megabyte - Mebibyte
Gigibyte - Gibibyte
Terabyte - Tebibyte
That’s about the highest it goes with today’s computer power, but they have terms up to the yobibyte - which is 1208925819614629174706176 bytes. That is over 1.2 septillion!

#12

Some useless, but cool (if you like numbers (or in KdIuLdLeA’s mind, large ones)) check this out:
Orders of magnitude (numbers)

#13

sounds like a brand of pet food

#14

I don’t get what you mean by that… large ones?

#15

You made a joke about “smaller is sometimes better” in another thread.

#16

Ohh, you were refering to that. Ok then lol

#17

i for one hate the term. cant we just round dow to the nearest thousand so it can be kilo. i mean, really, it like converting metric to standard. do you HAVE to say 1 inch = 2.59. cant we just say 2.6?

#18

lol, I agree with REA. Kinda the same deal with that pi number. Why not just keep it at 3.14 instead of being 3.14(add in the rest here cuz I don’t know it) lol Having hundreds of decimal places for a numder is stupid and pointless.

#19

But I like 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510…!
Or in binary: 11.00100100001111110110… <-(First 5 or 6 digits I think)
Or you can hear it in song. <-(Click it)

#20

There’s something wrong with you JMan, y’know that? lol