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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: English suffixes, Infixes, Prefixes, Binary prefix, Prefix code, ID, Al-, English prefixes, Number prefix, Internet-related prefixes, Non-SI unit prefixes, Ville, Nasal infix, -phil-, -ana, IEEE 1541-2002, Omics, -lock, -zilla, Tmesis, -nik, Shm-reduplication, Expletive infixation, Upasarga, Computer-aided, Dera, Agentive ending, -mer. Excerpt: In computing, a binary prefix is a specifier or mnemonic that is prepended to the units of digital information, the bit and the byte, to indicate multiplication by a power of 2. In practice the powers used are multiples of 10, so the prefixes denote powers of The computer industry uses terms such as kilobyte, megabyte, and gigabyte, and corresponding symbols KB, MB, and GB, in two different ways. For example, in citations of main memory or RAM capacity, gigabyte customarily means bytes. This is a power of 2, specifically 2, therefore this usage is referred to as a binary unit or binary prefix. In most other contexts, the industry uses kilo, mega, giga, etc., in a manner consistent with their meaning in the International System of Units (SI): as powers of 1000. For example, a 500 gigabyte hard drive holds bytes, and a 100 megabit per second Ethernet connection transfers data at bit/s. Starting in about 1998, a number of standards and trade organizations approved standards and recommendations for a new set of binary prefixes, proposed earlier by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), that would refer unambiguously to powers of 1024. According to these, the SI prefixes would only be used in the decimal sense, even when referring to data storage capacities: kilobyte and megabyte would denote one thousand bytes and one million bytes respectively (consistent with SI), while new terms such as kibibyte, mebibyte and gibibyte, abbreviated KiB, MiB, and GiB, would denote ...
