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A binary prefix is a unit prefix that indicates a multiple of a unit of measurement by an integer power of two. The most commonly used binary prefixes are kibi (symbol Ki, meaning 2 10 = 1024 ), mebi ( Mi, 2 20 = 1 048 576 ), and gibi ( Gi, 2 30 = 1 073 741 824 ).
The same suffix may be used with more than one category of number, as for example the orginary numbers secondary and tertiary and the distributive numbers binary and ternary. For the hundreds, there are competing forms: Those in -gent- , from the original Latin, and those in -cent- , derived from centi- , etc. plus the prefixes for 1 through 9 .
that the first part of the binary prefix is pronounced as the analogous SI prefix, and the second part is pronounced as bee; that SI prefixes are not used to indicate binary multiples. The bi part of the prefix comes from the word binary, so for example, kibibyte means a kilobinary byte, that is 1024 bytes.
"For example, in 2009, the SourceForge web site reported file sizes using binary prefixes for several months before changing back to SI prefixes but switching the file sizes to powers of ten." The binary prefixes, as defined by IEC 80000-13, are incorporated into ISO 80000-1 , including a note that "SI prefixes refer strictly to powers of 10 ...
By the way, the term "same difference" is an example of an oxymoron. ~ A H 1 (T C U) 19:45, 25 January 2010 (UTC) Granted -- by its use, I meant to refer to the object of my query in a punny way (the word that means not only what it means [same] but also its opposite [different]). DRosenbach (Talk | Contribs) 02:51, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
As is often the case with derivational morphology, many English prefixes can only be added to bases of particular lexical categories (or "parts of speech"). For example, the prefix re-meaning "again, back" is only added to verb bases as in rebuild, reclaim, reuse, resell, re-evaluate, resettle. It cannot be added to bases of other lexical ...
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Numerical prefixes for multiplication of compound or complex (as in complicated) features are created by adding kis to the basic numerical prefix, with the exception of numbers 2 and 3, which are bis- and tris-, respectively.