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		wvenable 14 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes? Seems like a typo given that the ad contains many mentions of K (8K, 32K) and they're all of the 1024 variety.

duskwuff 14 days ago [–]

If you're using base 10, you can get "8K" and "32K" by dividing by 10 and rounding down. The 1024/1000 distinction only becomes significant at 65536.

wvenable 14 days ago | [–]

Still the advertisement is filled with details like the number of chips, the number of pins, etc. If you're dealing with chips and pins, it's always going to base-2.

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