Timeline for Why do we used byte instead of octet as data size unit?
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| Apr 5, 2020 at 3:50 | comment | added | phuclv | "In France, French Canada and Romania, octet is used in common language instead of byte when the 8-bit sense is required, for example, a megabyte (MB) is termed a megaoctet (Mo)." it's not common in other languages at all. As this site is English, authors generally use the common English term which is byte | |
| Dec 26, 2019 at 15:46 | answer | added | karel | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 7, 2019 at 14:19 | comment | added | Mark Kirby | Just to give you some extra feedback on this, I looked everywhere I know to find something on what units are preferred and why but came up with nothing. It seems just to be decided by the dominant culture and what units they use, as opposed to an actual policy written down somewhere. | |
| Dec 7, 2019 at 1:02 | history | reopened |
Mark Kirby damadam Eliah Kagan Dan Olimjon |
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| Dec 5, 2019 at 16:15 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Dec 5, 2019 at 15:45 | comment | added | Mark Kirby | I don't think this is off topic, the question asks why do we use the sets of units we do on Ask Ubuntu, to me, that seems to be a valid question. | |
| Dec 4, 2019 at 7:00 | history | closed |
Kulfy edwinksl guntbert Kevin Bowen pomsky |
Not suitable for this site | |
| Dec 3, 2019 at 16:11 | comment | added | damadam | @MarkKirby yeah | |
| Dec 3, 2019 at 16:01 | comment | added | Mark Kirby | So I think, you want to know what the official stance on what units should be used and why? Am I understanding your question? | |
| Dec 3, 2019 at 15:51 | history | edited | Eliah Kagan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
edited to make clearer why it makes sense to ask this here, what kinds of answers are hoped for, and that this really is an attempt to solicit input from the Ask Ubuntu community (https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/52775769#52775769)
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| Dec 3, 2019 at 15:40 | comment | added | damadam | @MarkKirby So we could debate a lot about English units vs AskUbuntu units used. for example, temperature (°F vs °C, where SI unit is K) | |
| Dec 3, 2019 at 15:30 | comment | added | Mark Kirby | There's your answer then " I know that it's not a problem in English", the site is English language (American officially I guess) and that is the standard in English. am I missing something here? | |
| Dec 3, 2019 at 15:25 | comment | added | damadam | @MarkKirby if I asked the question, that's not because the answer seems as evident as that for me, there are some countries (as mine) where we don't use the byte unit due to confusion with "bit" (the way to say it is the same). I know that it's not a problem in English, which isn't in other languages | |
| Dec 3, 2019 at 15:18 | history | edited | damadam | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 3, 2019 at 15:15 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 3, 2019 at 14:58 | comment | added | Kulfy | I think this can be a better question for Super User or may be Retrocomputing | |
| Dec 3, 2019 at 14:56 | comment | added | Mark Kirby | Are you asking why those units are preferred on AskUbuntu? If I say to someone on the main site "You need 16Go of ram" they will say "Do you mean 16GB", that is why. The byte unit is way more well known as a standard in public knowledge, to use anything else would be futile. I don't have a load of sources for this but it seems self evident. | |
| Dec 3, 2019 at 14:38 | history | asked | damadam | CC BY-SA 4.0 |