KiB, MiB etc

[Runa Bhattacharjee <runab redhat com>]

Hi,

The Fedora Documentation has references to the following unit of measurements which are different 
from the more common Kilo(bit/byte), Mega(bit/byte) etc., depending upon context.

Kib = Kibibit [1]
KiB = Kibibyte
Mib = Mebibit
MiB = Mebibyte

etc.

since this was something new for me, I thought I'd like to pass on the message in case there are 
more people writing the full forms of these acronyms. Please do note the differing usage of 
capitalizations.


hth

regards
Runa


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibit (links for all the above and others available from this page)
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