ext_17567 ([identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] beamjockey 2011-01-26 06:47 am (UTC)

Yeah, while the strictly decimal prefixes are SI-consistent, I never heard anyone use the terms that way until disk manufacturers started doing it, which makes it grating that that mildly fraudulent use is now being enshrined as the correct one.

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