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Does anyone ever actually use those prefixes? I've personally just couched the difference into bytes vs bits.
Bytes vs bits is a completely different discrepency that usually comes up with bandwidth measurements.
So there are: Kilobytes, Kibibytes, Kilobits, and Kibibits
Pretty much only when talking about the difference like here. 🙃