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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-27 18:01:24 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-27 18:01:24 +0000 |
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diff --git a/help/C/units.page b/help/C/units.page new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c78b088 --- /dev/null +++ b/help/C/units.page @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" + type="topic" style="task" + id="units"> + <info> + <revision version="0.2" pkgversion="3.11" date="2014-01-26" status="review"/> + <link type="guide" xref="index#other" group="other" /> + + <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/> + + <credit type="author copyright"> + <name>Phil Bull</name> + <email>philbull@gmail.com</email> + <years>2011</years> + </credit> + + <credit type="author copyright"> + <name>Michael Hill</name> + <email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email> + <years>2011, 2014</years> + </credit> + + <desc>Units of measure for memory and disk space</desc> + </info> + + <title>Is GiB the same as GB (gigabyte)?</title> + + <comment> + <cite date="2011-06-18" href="mailto:philbull@gmail.com">Phil Bull</cite> + <p>Answer this question, quite briefly.</p> + </comment> + + <p>The memory and disk space statistics are displayed using <em>IEC binary + prefixes</em>, KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB (for kibi, mebi, gibi and tebi). These are + intended to distinguish binary reporting of sizes used in System Monitor + (multiples of 1024) from decimal sizes (multiples of 1000) commonly used, for + instance, in packaging of hard disks.</p> + + <p>Typical binary units:</p> + <list> + <item><p>1 KiB = 1024 bytes</p></item> + <item><p>1 MiB = 1048576 bytes</p></item> + <item><p>1 GiB = 1073741842 bytes</p></item> + </list> + + <p>An external hard drive, advertised as 1.0 TB (terabytes), would display + as 0.909 TiB (tebibytes).</p> + +</page> |