SI prefixes for binary orders of magnitude.
August 3rd, 2003
SI prefixes for binary
orders of magnitude. (summary: “-bi-” is a new infix,
replacing the second syllable of the corresponding 10-power SI prefix,
standing for “binary”; e.g. 1 kilobyte is properly
equal to 1000 bytes, but 1 kibibyte = 210 bytes = 1024
bytes.)