Wrongheaded view of the world?
When doing science, is it inappropriate to distinguish between the numbers 1000 and 1024?
When doing science, is it inappropriate to distinguish between the numbers 1000 and 1024?
Of course not! In computers, 'kilo-' means 1,024; everywhere else it means 1,000. This is a simple rule; network-device and hard-drive manufacturers are just wrong when they violate it.