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| author | Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> | 2017-02-13 03:00:06 +0100 |
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| committer | Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> | 2017-02-15 17:05:53 +0100 |
| commit | 8685adb26b0ec6a0b4fad2cb7765fae3b9f2e25c (patch) | |
| tree | 54ae93f9587d45cba8e7bd867670d6e3ebcf2de4 | |
| parent | e0044bd3896456afb346d06e91a97ac515930ccf (diff) | |
book: binary prefixed are defined by IEC and not in SI
Binary prefixes (such as Gi for ‘gibi-’ in GiB) are defined by International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and not in the International System of Units (SI).
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diff --git a/src/doc/book/src/the-stack-and-the-heap.md b/src/doc/book/src/the-stack-and-the-heap.md index b9b3b801eae..6866505df13 100644 --- a/src/doc/book/src/the-stack-and-the-heap.md +++ b/src/doc/book/src/the-stack-and-the-heap.md @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ to a large number, representing how much RAM your computer has. For example, if you have a gigabyte of RAM, your addresses go from `0` to `1,073,741,823`. That number comes from 2<sup>30</sup>, the number of bytes in a gigabyte. [^gigabyte] -[^gigabyte]: ‘Gigabyte’ can mean two things: 10^9, or 2^30. The SI standard resolved this by stating that ‘gigabyte’ is 10^9, and ‘gibibyte’ is 2^30. However, very few people use this terminology, and rely on context to differentiate. We follow in that tradition here. +[^gigabyte]: ‘Gigabyte’ can mean two things: 10<sup>9</sup>, or 2<sup>30</sup>. The IEC standard resolved this by stating that ‘gigabyte’ is 10<sup>9</sup>, and ‘gibibyte’ is 2<sup>30</sup>. However, very few people use this terminology, and rely on context to differentiate. We follow in that tradition here. This memory is kind of like a giant array: addresses start at zero and go up to the final number. So here’s a diagram of our first stack frame: |