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  Thu Apr 08 06:48:42 2010 leonerd-cpan [...] leonerd.org.uk - Ticket created
Subject: base2 should use binary SI prefixes
The base2 method prints the suffices kB, MB, GB, etc... when it is using base2 divisions. This is wrong. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_prefix#Binary_prefixes I suggest instead KiB # note the capital 'K' MiB GiB MiB TiB -- Paul Evans
  Thu Apr 08 06:49:36 2010 leonerd-cpan [...] leonerd.org.uk - Correspondence added
On Thu Apr 08 06:48:42 2010, PEVANS wrote: Show quoted text
> KiB # note the capital 'K' > MiB > GiB
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> MiB
((umm... forget that one ;) )) Show quoted text
> TiB
-- Paul Evans
  Thu Apr 08 06:49:37 2010 leonerd-cpan [...] leonerd.org.uk - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Thu Jul 03 05:23:14 2014 https://launchpad.net/~flimm - Correspondence added
+1 from me. I realise this standard hasn't been enthusiastically adopted on Windows, but it's too late now: MB now means either 1048576 or 1000000 bytes depending on who you're talking to, whereas MiB is unambiguously 1048576 bytes. Please provide an option to use KiB, MiB...