Kilo - means 1000!

Beeeph · Post by **Beeeph** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:18 am

not 1024.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:22 am

I like 1024 better. I like all things 8. (or anything bit-wise for that matter) Kilo SHOULD mean 1024.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:23 am

Or perhaps, just to make everyone happy, Kilo should mean, In the neighborhood of 1000...

Beeeph · Post by **Beeeph** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:42 am

no i am not happy! when you say, "yo G, i got a kilo of smack!", do you mean 1024 grams of smack? every dawg knows that a 56K modem is trickin' at 56,000 bits per second, not 57,344. Shit!

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:43 am

Well they are already trying to make 1024 bytes into a kibibyte, instead of a kilobyte.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:50 am

Kibibyte makes ME angry. Stupid word... Tell it I hate it!

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:50 am

Some people think Kilobyte should equal 1000 bytes... but they're so wrong...

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:51 am

Also 1024 grams of smack is much like a baker's dozen. It's a dealer's kilo. So there...

Beeeph · Post by **Beeeph** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:58 am

damn it! no!

when you say, "I'll give you 3K for your baker's dozen of smack", do you mean $1,024Ã—3 = $3,072?

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 12:54 pm

Of course 3072! Or 4096 (which happens to be another favorite number of mine.)

"Give me 16,384 grams of smack!" I'd say...

"Give me 16,777,216 grams of DMT stat!: I'd say...

I'll take "32,768 grams of flour for baking cookies."

I'll need 512 grams of sugar too.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 12:57 pm

Of course it's easier if you just tell them:

Give me 14 bits worth of smack!

Or, 24 bits worth of DMT.

spidermonkey · Post by **spidermonkey** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 3:45 pm

Does this all mean that one millibyte is 1/1024 of a byte?

Goemon · Post by **Goemon** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:35 pm

I lost a few yoctobytes of data due to the recent Taiwan earthquake. Can I sue the Taiwanese government?

Beeeph · Post by **Beeeph** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 12:10 am

sure, and you're probably lookin at making out with a cool Â¥16bits, easy!

Goemon · Post by **Goemon** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 2:23 am

Â¥16bits, eh? How many hogsheads of marmalade could I get with that?

spidermonkey · Post by **spidermonkey** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 1:03 pm

How many catties are in a hogshead?
How many firkins for that matter?

N3ur0n0saurusl2exs0r!!! · Sat Dec 30, 2006 3:06 pm

There is more to the story - it's not just kibibyte there is a whole host of ibi's...like:

mebi, gibi, tebi, pebi, exbi, zebi, yobi...ridiculous...

spidermonkey · Post by **spidermonkey** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 4:53 pm

One yobigram, please.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 11:42 pm

I'll take a Kilo-yobigram.

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Kilo - means 1000!

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