Of course, it's not ideal to have to "lose" resources unnecessarily. But in the general case, the small difference is unlikely to be enough especially as a student to make their project unfeasible. In those specific cases where it does, they should already be measuring the exact footprints of everything and not assuming the sizes of anything from documentation alone.
The benefit however, is that your assumptions about what somebody else meant by "2kB" will not hurt you when they're wrong. Which in this specific case, and as a general lesson to your students - I feel is important. Are these engineering related undergrads? If yes, I'd with , based on binary math as that is what engineering is based on. Manufacturers may advertise as 2. In my 26 years as a professional software engineer I have never encountered KB to mean anything other than Teach them whatever definitions you like and make sure that they know that is the only useful one.
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Ask Question. Asked 3 years, 8 months ago. Active 1 year, 10 months ago. Viewed 72k times. Improve this question. Personally, I am used to seeing "kB", even when it strictly isn't a SI prefix. So it is not always about programming. The SI unit for quantity is the mole. Show 11 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Mike P Mike P 1, 1 1 gold badge 5 5 silver badges 4 4 bronze badges. Just because kibble exists doesn't mean people like or actually use it.
I have always found the attempted adoption of SI usage an incorrect and unnecessary confusion. That said, as an educator, a student will need to understand the confusion. Show 30 more comments. Bass Bass 4 4 silver badges 3 3 bronze badges. A megapixel is 1 million pixels, a megabit is a million bits.
It depends on OS also. In , Apple switched to standards-based prefixes for filesystems etc, to match disk drive manufacturers, i. Add a comment. Buffy Buffy IEC really just made a mess of things. But more important: If you teach them just the one thing as the "correct thing" you are setting them up for confusion later. The world is messy. Teachers shouldn't pretend it isn't. Being dogmatic isn't very helpful. Show 15 more comments. Where used mainly It is important to show where the 2 systems are used.
IEC A. SI units e. Community Bot 1. I am trying to extend on other answers. Two nitpicks: 0 For all the prefixes k, M, Mi, Gi, etc. Show 7 more comments. I have seen people mixing up millimetre with megamolar. It therefore doesn't resolve the ambiguity the way MiB does.
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