Tom's Hardware: Topic L2 cache bit or byte?
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| Quote : No, I kid you not, a Megabyte is 1000 Kb, whereas a Mebibyte is 1024 Kb. (same for Kb versus KiB). Not that anyone uses those correctly mind you... |
<i>If</i> you buy into the goofy scheme worked out by the International Electrotechnical Commission, a scheme that almost no one is buying into by the way, then yeah.
If however you've been working on PCs for more than six years and have been happily using the common binary prefixes (or if you just don't buy into those funky new xxbi prefixes), then bollocks.
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@ 198K of 200K!
You are quite correct, and so I edited my post as requested 
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