Let me introduce the kibimeter

The misuse of those prefixes as powers of 1024, while useful as shorthand for computer memory where binary addressing means, is still exactly that: a misuse of SI prefixes.

There's now a separate set of base-2 prefixes to solve this, and people need to update their language accordingly.

nice to see the battlefield again, just as I remembered it

It would be nice to have a different standard for decimal vs. binary kilobytes.

But if Don Knuth thinks that the "international standard" naming for binary kilobytes is dead on arrival, who am I to argue?

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news99.html

Approximating metric prefixing with kibi, Mibi, Gibi... is confusing because it doesn't make sense semantically. There is nothing base-10-ish about it.

I propose some naming based on shift distance, derived from the latin iterativum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_numerals#Adverbial_numer...

* 2^10, the kibibyte, is a deci (shifted) byte, or just a 'deci'

* 2^20, the mibibyte, is a vici (shifted) byte, or a 'vici'

* 2^30, the gibibyte, is a trici (shifted) byte, or a 'trici'

I mean, we really only need to think in bytes for memory addressing, right? The base doesn't matter much, if we were talking exabytes, does it?