He should be happy that (3/2)^12 is so close to 2^7 that it works at all.
Just as I'm happy that 2^10 is close enough to 10^3 that the whole kB/KB/kiB issue rarely matters much.
Just as I'm happy that 2^10 is close enough to 10^3 that the whole kB/KB/kiB issue rarely matters much.
Though admittedly it belongs to the category: names I'd have thought were exclusively women's except I heard of just this one dude. My list is:
* Evelyn Waugh
* Vivian Richards
* Marion Barry
It matters more these days when we're more likely to be talking about 2^30 or 2^40 and the difference multiplies. (It's only 2.4% at a kilobyte, but nearly 10% at a terabyte.) In fact it has gotten quite a few people upset, like this reviewer on Amazon who said Samsung was falsely advertising their "512GB" MicroSD card that really only has 476GB as displayed by the reviewer's operating system:
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R2Q6PRT955GYE/
I wrote a reply to the review that explains the difference between the two numbering systems, as 512,000,000,000 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 rounded down to an integer is the 476 that the OS or file utility displayed.
I suppose it's a shame that GiB and such never took off, but probably they would be even more confusing. (What does the "i" mean, and which is which?)
This may be a no-win situation.
It sort of did. This is what OSes use to report storage sizes.