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Comment by johncolanduoni

10 hours ago

If you really want to piss people off, use Gibibits - 1024 * 1024 * 1024 bits. The ratio between those and Gigabytes is ~7.451.

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poly2it  8 hours ago

I honestly feel mibi and gibibytes per second are the easiest units to rationalise about. The data I am transferring is already known to me in its binary prefix unit. Seconds for that data to transfer is a trivial translation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix

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