Is the PS5 PRO an utterly useless device at launch? Reviews are out now.

[SvennoJ]

Conina said:

SvennoJ said:

I'm a programmer, TerraBytes are measured in base 2, a byte is 8 bits, a kilobyte is 1024 bytes 2 to the 10th power.

But at some point marketing switched it to base 10.

Sorry, but you as a programmer should know, that Terabytes, Gigabytes, Megabytes and Kilobytes are measured in base 10.

A kilogram is 1000 grams, a kilometer is 1000 meters, a kilohertz is 1000 hertz, a kilowatt is 1000 watts, a kiloton is 1000 tons... so why should a kilobyte be 1024 bytes instead of 1000 bytes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units#Prefixes

Tebibytes, Gibibytes, Mebibytes and Kibibytes are measured in base 2.

Lol we never used those terms at work. Allocating a megabyte of memory was always 1024 KB, not 1000 KB.

Seems to still be the case

As we know that “Kilo” is generally used as a replacement for 1000. Since computers use the binary system (or base-2 numbering system), the base-2 number which is nearest to 1000 is 1024 (i.e. 2^10). That's why in the computer system, 1024 is referred to as “Kilo”.Oct 19, 2017