KiB

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

KiB? What?

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

Kibibytes

did you make that up?

dangit nevermind

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.”

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

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

Haha, that’s awesome!

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!

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

sounds like a brand of pet food

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

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

Ohh, you were refering to that. Ok then lol

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?

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.

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)

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