I'm not sure if how many of you know this but anyway...
Some (most) of you have shown a dislike of the new names. "It doesn't sound right." I have to agree, as it's not as sweer sounding as mega or kilo; however, there is simple logic behind why these names were chosen.
Contrasting megabyte with mebibyte, we find the only difference are the third and fourth characters. Extracting this, we get "bi", a common prefix/suffix meaning "two of", or "in units of two". Remember the word "binary"? At least the new names make a lot of sense logically, if not acoustically.
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I'm not sure if how many of you know this but anyway... Some (most) of you have shown a dislike of the new names. "It doesn't sound right." I have to agree, as it's not as sweer sounding as mega or kilo; however, there is simple logic behind why these names were chosen. Contrasting megabyte with mebibyte, we find the only difference are the third and fourth characters. Extracting this, we get "bi", a common prefix/suffix meaning "two of", or "in units of two". Remember the word "binary"? At least the new names make a lot of sense logically, if not acoustically.