Binary (Base-2) naming conventions
Does the OED make any mention to the following prefixes created by the IEC in 1998? Is anyone here familiar with them? kibi-mebi-gibi-tebi-pebi-exbi-They would be appended with either byte or bit.I...
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Nope, not in the OED. I'm familiar with them (that is, I've heard of them and knew what they mean) but in my experience they haven't caught on much "in the wild" either, although they're still pretty...
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I wasn't familiar with them, and I have to say they sound awful. "Kibibit" -- feh! No wonder they haven't caught on.
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I'm in Computer Science and don't remember every seeing them before. I agree with lh that they all seem very poorly chosen.kibibits - a dog food for small yappy dogsmebibits - memory that can't make...
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The Mushmouth pun had me doing a spit-take. Good one.But seriously, one of the things about these new words that puzzles me is the extraneous, redundant, "bi" syllable. Why not just say "kib, meb,...
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They have a reasonable raison d'etre, e.g., 1000 ≠ 1024, but they do seem a bit twee.
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Various links from Chris's brought me to the definition of decibel, and subsequently to bel. Here it is:bel (B): A unit of measure of ratios of power levels, i.e., relative power levels. Note 1: The...
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