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zaphoyd
3874 days ago
I think in this case the issue isn't binary prefixes vs decimal which in this case would amount to a ~7% error, but rather bits vs bytes which is an error of ~800%
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grubles
3874 days ago
Yes, I'm not sure the parent realizes KiB (kibibyte) is different than Kb (kilobit):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte
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craigds
3873 days ago
error of 700%, technically
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