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		floren 13 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes? And yet in computing, a 1kHz clock is still 1000 cycles per second, and 1 MFLOP is still 1,000,000 floating-point operations per second.

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antonvs 13 days ago [–]

The comment you replied to explained that:

"in binary computing traditionally prefix + byte implied binary number quantities."

There are no bytes involved in Hz or FLOPs.

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