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I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.

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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.)

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