Contexts

Posted Jul 14, 2022 18:23 UTC (Thu) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: Contexts by geert
Parent article: Native Python support for units?

The packaging of the last hard drive I bought says "When referring to drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one thousand billion bytes."

Of course it does – it makes the drive seem bigger! At least to people who naïvely assume that one terabyte is 2⁴⁰ bytes (what SI calls “one tebibyte”).