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ithkuil on March 2, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Search Works

100 million gigabytes = 100 petabytes ~= 88.8 pebibytes

100 million gibibytes ~= 95 pebibytes

runlevel1 on March 2, 2013 [–]

I see the value of this distinction, but I can't shake the feeling that a word used for years has been co-opted by marketing and replaced with something that sounds silly when spoken out loud.

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