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by michalhosna 2113 days ago
This one is wrong on the OS side of thigs.

KB = Kilobyte, which from SI definition of kilo means 10^3.

KiB = Kibibyte, was formaly defined later by IEC in 1998 as 2^10

OSes (Windows/Mac/Linux), are the ones doing it wrong, using 2^10 internaly, but presenting using SI prefixes.

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Apple uses powers of 10 now.