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Incorrect use of MB vs MiB ​

I'm aware that this is pretty nitpicky, but XenForo is using a base 1024 system for filesystem sizes and then incorrectly labeling them as KB, MB, GB, TB, etc (those are base 1000 labels) in XF\Language.php. See: Megabyte - Wikipedia The numbering system XenForo uses is...

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VBX Co said:
I've always understood data to be stored as binary (Base 2), so a megabyte to me has always been 1024 bytes. So 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024 etc.
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When I taught myself to program there was machine code or binary so I can only think in those terms (1024) regardless of how it's labeled although MiB...

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