does ‘MiB’ stands for ‘Mega Byte(s)’?
shouldn’t it be ‘MeB’ = ‘Mega Byte(s)’ instead of ‘MiB’?
‘KiB’ is correct because it stands for ‘Kilo Byte(s)’
as i said a very minor bug…
thanks anyway, for any attention…
No. MiB stands for “MibiBytes” to differentiate them from Megabytes.
MegaBytes are decimal (base-10), ie 1,000 KB, (1,000,000 bytes) but MibiBytes are the binary (base-2) equivalent, ie 1,024 KiB. (KiB = KibiByte = 1,024 bytes so 1 MiB = 1,048,576 bytes)
Likewise GB are 1,000 MB but GiB are 1,024 MiB.
It’s a convention rather than law and Microsoft amongst others ignores it, which is why an 80GB hard-drive appears in Windows as 78.125 GB - it’s actually 78.125 GiB (80,000/1,024) but MS uses GB inappropriately. Of course hard-drive manufacturers are also cheating slightly as an 80GB hdd looks bigger than a 78.125 GiB one to the average punter!
Sunday is right, there is no bug. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KiB
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix