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Since mega- and giga- haf well-established meanings as prefixes to measures, and the original common usages of MB and GB were inconsistent with those meanings, I prefer MiB and GiB for those uses, even though it took marketers using the correct versions for devious reasons to get terms popularized that distinguished the base-2 prefixes from the close-but-not-the-same base-10 prefixes.



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