Talk:Gibibyte

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THIS DEFINITION IS EXACTLY WRONG
A gibigbyte are 1000^4 byte. it was invented to accompany the HRF (Human Readable Format) and uses powers of 1000, not 1024. A gigabyte are 1024^4 byte.

look it up. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.54.254.138 (talk) 19:12, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Pronunciation
How is gibibyte pronounced? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.71.58.228 (talk) 23:32, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
 * There is a pronunciation guideline in the Binary prefixes article.-- era (Talk | History) 19:33, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Suggestion for change
"Giga-binary-byte" is rather silly, since the power-of-2 characteristic is the primary one - giga is merely the magnitude designator. Much more sensible would be the call it 'Binary Gigabytes', or, seredipitously, 'bigigabyte' (pron. "big-iga-byte" or even, though less happily, "bye-gigabyte") with abbreviation BGB or bGB. Establishing that as a new convention might be quite easy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.236.113.179 (talk • contribs) 13:57, 23 March 2009


 * The relevant standards bodies (IEEE, IEC) who define these terms are unlikely to see your suggestion on the talk page of a Wikipedia article. Perhaps you should contact those organizations directly. --65.121.28.16 (talk) 14:49, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Gigabyte "misspelling"
I went through and cleaned up what appeared to be a mass replacement of "gibi" with "giga". After checking the history it seems that someone did indeed think gibibyte was just a misspelling of gigabyte. That is unquestionably not the case and this is the page for gibibyte (however paltry it may be). Be sure to double check when using them if there's any confusion. Fofosfederation (talk) 05:32, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you for checking this. There were indeed some strange "test" edits that you mostly fixed.  To be sure of catching all of the changes, I have reverted to the last clean version.  Dondervogel 2 (talk) 06:32, 20 August 2015 (UTC)