The commission also sets a long-term goal of raising the broadband metric to 1Gbps for downloads and 500Mbps for uploads.
  • Blaster M@lemmy.worldEnglish
    82·
    10 months ago

    Computers run on binary, base 2. 1000 vs 1024, one is byte aligned(2^10), the other is not.

    • AProfessional@lemmy.worldEnglish
      45·
      10 months ago

      Thats an irrelevant technical detail for modern storage. We regularly use billions, trillions of bytes. The world has mostly standardized on base 10 for large numbers as it’s easy to understand and convert.

      Literally all of the devices I own use this.