Talk:gigabyte

Hmm ... the rewording "imprecisely, a gibibyte" is strictly correct, but it wasn't what I was going after. The point is that, in the usual case that people care more about the order of magnitude than the exact quantity, "gigabyte" is the term thrown around. In such usage it means "either a gigabyte or a gibibyte, don't care which." I would suspect that a fair number of people who use the term this way know that there is a distinction but aren't familiar with the term "gibibyte". -dmh 15:15, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I agree that many people use the term gigabyte for both, so why not say informally, rather than imprecisely.
Talking of precision, I thought a gigabyte was 1024 megabytes ??? (see http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/computers/data/m0025608.html)
There seems to be endless confusion! Does anyone really know???
Dbfirs 23:21, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

On reflection, the 1024 megabyte definition is technically wrong - a leftover from when gigabyte was used for gibibyte.Dbfirs 23:46, 29 November 2007 (UTC)