Megabytes (MB) or Mebibytes (MiB)?

An anonymous reader says: "KernelTrap has an interesting story about megabytes versus mebibytes. Though the article refers to Linux, the topic is applicable to all computers. Will there be a time when all computer users will talk about adding mibibytes of RAM, rather than a megabytes? From the article: '[the kernel patch] changes references from the familiar MB (megabyte) and GB (gigabyte) to the NIST standard MiB (mebibyte) and GiB (gibibyte). According to these standards, technically a megabyte (MB) is a power of ten, while a mebibyte (MiB) is a power of two, appropriate for binary machines. A megabyte is then 1,000,000 bytes. A mebibyte is the actual 1,048,576 bytes that most intend.'"

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The Penguin system!

[zensonic]

As said by Dick Johnson:


If we change anything......, we should define a new system of units, PI, instead of SI. The basic unit is measurement is the Penguin. It is abbreviated as p.

Powers of 2:

2 ^ 0 = p (1)
2 ^ 1 = dp dipenguin
2 ^ 2 = qp hepenguin
2 ^ 3 = op octpenguim
2 ^ 4 = hp hexpenguim
2 ^ 5 = ddp duodipenguin
2 ^ 6 = oop octoctpenguin
2 ^ 7 = ohp octohexpenguin
2 ^ 8 = hhp hexahexpenguin
2 ^ 9 = dhhp duohexahexpenguin
2 ^ 10 = kp kilopenguin
2 ^ 20 = mp megapenguin
2 ^ 30 = gp gigapenguin
...etc.

........ otherwise we should leave it alone!