• FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    To expand on this: people sometimes use SI prefixes to refer to 1024 units, but it’s just wrong. A kilometer is 1000 meters, a kilogram is 1000 grams, and so on. If we were to re-define these prefixes for specific disciplines things get much more complicated very quickly.