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| | Hydrogenaudio Forums -> How come mp3s are so small? |
 | | A few years ago, some industrials decided to change it mainly for marketting/commercial justifications: hard drive manufacturers want you to think that 1GB is 1 000 000 000 bytes instead of 1 073 741 824 bytes, and Microsoft wants you to think that 1kbit is 1024bits. |
 | | A binary kilobit, or "kibibit" is 1024 bits. |
 | | To correct this the Kibi, mebi, gibi, tebi, pebi, and exbi were made a standard in 1998, to represent the binary versions. |
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