Well, that answers the question - thank you.

Oh they don't you say:

So you've never heard of the IEEE either, I suppose, which has almost exactly the same standard?

And I was pointing out that regardless, the NIST standard has subsequently been adopted with only slight modifications by both the IEEE and the IEC. NIST not being international just produces a non-sequitur.

UL listed? Those prongs reaching back look awfully ... shortable to me, since they can wiggle when the exterior faceplate loosens or moves.

Nobody uses kibi- in practice because they don't mind when their orbiter crashes on mars. Contextual switching is great, and of course people use jargon when they are at work, but there is a reason the IEEE and IEC adopted the kilo-binary standards.

IEC is an international standards body.

IEEE 1541 recommends - :

IEEE 1541 sets out the standards for the industry - it uses the kilo-binary kibi nomenclature.

IEEE 1541 recommends:

One of the things about standards is they are supposed to avoid confusion - so if you're going to say the system doesn't apply here, you shouldn't use terms that have meanings within that system.

No it doesn't, because the software engineer will do what he always does and say

Your industry did not invent the SI prefixes. It abused them.

Thats not changing it, thats how many it has always been. People in your field have just taken kilo to mean more than it actually does and used the wrong value by convention.

It just shows how dumb people are that they make up meanings for words because they can't be arsed to convert 10^3 into base 2 or use the appropriate prefix, kibi, that means 2^10.

D’awww, look at the asshole child who thinks he can say words that mean things.

Yes, because Tera- anything doesn't mean 10^12 of the anything ... WHAT PLANET ARE YOU FROM that suddenly its base 2 because your industry can't do math?

They did, and everyone is mocking them for doing so, because NIST isn't 'god almight' or some shit.

When your space probe crashes into mars because you used kilo when you meant kibi, and some engineer took your specification at its word, it won't be NISTs fault for creating a universal standard you failed to use.

NO. Its 8000 BITS. 10^3 bytes is 1000 bytes. Thats what KILO means. 10^3.