On 13-11-18 07:28 PM, grarpamp wrote:
A proper IEC gibibyte = GiB = 2^30 = 1024^3 = 1073741824 for data storage, ram (binary bit handling) A proper SI gigabyte = GB = 1E9 = 1000^3 = 1000000000 for data transmission (packet counting, rocketships)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_80000 http://www.swedeteam.com/kibi/
Thugh they may break your broken tradition, there are current standards now, please use them.
The tradition may be broken but it has roots, just as feet and inches and acres came from real human practices. Some of us "grew up with" that stuff and it is going to be a pain to unlearn, for example, that a KB is 1024 bytes. Indeed this is the first i heard that anyone changed the definitions.
Anyway, as long as Tor docs are clear what definitions are being used i think we can all get along fine. Suggest we add reference URLs to Tor docs.