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Undid revision 1112043119 by MasterQuestionable (talk) stop messing with the formatting of others' comments....if you really feel the need to make a pointless reply to something that's moot, just add your own comment after without modifying the others
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== Unit Multiples ==
== Unit Multiples ==
Is this really correct? "100 gigabytes is specified when the disk contains 100 billion bytes (93 gibibytes) of storage space." The whole section has no attribution, so I can't check it. But I had always gathered that the difference was available storage space on formatted vs un-formatted disk. <!-- Template:Unsigned --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Tsuchan|Tsuchan]] ([[User talk:Tsuchan#top|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Tsuchan|contribs]]) 12:42, 27 May 2020 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

Is this really correct? "100 gigabytes is specified when the disk contains 100 billion bytes (93 gibibytes) of storage space." The whole section has no attribution, so I can't check it. But I had always gathered that the difference was available storage space on formatted vs un-formatted disk. - [[User:Tsuchan|Tsuchan]] ([[User talk:Tsuchan|talk]]) 12:42, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
:This should not need attribution anymore, is not an opinion, but straight forward application of prefixes. But I clarified the statement in a more verbose form. [[User:Kbrose|Kbrose]] ([[User talk:Kbrose|talk]]) 15:08, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
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: This should not need attribution anymore, is not an opinion, but straight forward application of prefixes. But I clarified the statement in a more verbose form. - [[User:Kbrose|Kbrose]] ([[User talk:Kbrose|talk]]) 15:08, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
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: More on the topic: [ https://en.wikipedia.org/?diffonly=1&diff=prev&oldid=1105427872 ] ([[#My_own_explanation_on_the_background|# My own explanation on the background]]; currently on this page). - [[User:MasterQuestionable|MasterQuestionable]] ([[User talk:MasterQuestionable|talk]]) 06:58, 22 September 2022 (UTC)


== Proposed merger ==
== Proposed merger ==