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by dataflow 1982 days ago
The xkcd isn't really relevant here, there are only 2 competing standards here and the proposal is to pick the other one.
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arghwhat 1981 days ago
There were two standards (different prefix definitions) - the kibi/mibi/... line of prefixes was made as a solution.

So now there are three standards.

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