Prefixes for Binary Multiples

National Institute of Standards and Technology. Prefixes for Binary Multiples.

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https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

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• Units of Information
  • IEC 80000-13 standardizes names, symbols, definitions, conversions, and binary prefixes for information science and technology. Decimal prefixes such as kbit denote powers of ten, while binary prefixes such as Kibit denote powers of \(2^{10}\); NIST documents the distinction and the eight-bit byte convention.

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