Zeroclickinfo-goodies: Conversions: CONVERT 223791630KB TO GB Incorrect
CONVERT 223791630 KB TO GB
shows 2.23792*10^8 Kilobyte = 223.792 Gigabyte
That's not correct as it appears to be using / 1000 / 1000, but should be / 1024 / 1024 to return ~213 G.
Thanks.
IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/conversions
Maintainer: @pjhampton
ClarkJeff
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@ClarkJeff the IA uses the SI prefixes for Giga/Kilo (i.e. 1000 based), the Binary prefixes are available as Gibibyte, Kibibyte (GiB, KiB) etc
mintsoft
on 30 Jul 2018
Seeing as the type of the search/conversion is "digital storage" concerning bytes, and not weight/lenght/etc., I would argue that the IA is wrong in using SI prefixes.
Krogsager
on 7 Feb 2019
@Krogsager Kilo is defined as 1000, KiB is defined as 1024 (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix) The reality is that different applications and operating systems output KB ambiguously, therefore we've decided to stick to strict SI where KB is Kilobytes and KiB is Kibibytes
mintsoft
on 8 Feb 2019
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@Krogsager Kilo is defined as 1000, KiB is defined as 1024 (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix) The reality is that different applications and operating systems output KB ambiguously, therefore we've decided to stick to strict SI where KB is Kilobytes and KiB is Kibibytes