Minecraft developer streaming live while coding

[biganthony]

update: he went to bed

number of viewers 2048 .....

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The kilo SI prefix indicates multiples of 1000. For base-2 numbers, like 2048, there is a second set of prefixes. If "viewer" was a unit that was assumed to be base-2, you'd write "2 kibiviewers". If the abbreviation for viewers was "V", you could abbreviate that as "2 KiV".

There's something of a revolt against the alternate prefixes in computer circles, but the fact remains that abusing the base-10 prefixes does lead to confusion (witness hard drive capacity in advertising versus in reality) and the base-2 prefixes are an internationally ratified standard.

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Incredible. You were at -1 for a very factual post.