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I mean we are throwing accuracy out the window by using milli anyway so who the hell cares , at this point I'm afraid people are using "m" to mean JEDEC mega , ie per IEC mebi ("Mi") , not even mentioning how stupid using the "p" infix looks when surrounded by SI or SI adjacent units
It's a factor of 8 we're talking about. That's not far off from a factor of 10. If a factor of 10 difference is important enough to get its own prefix in SI, I think a factor of 8 difference is plenty enough to care about having clarified notation. This isn't like the mega/mebi thing where the drift is only on the order of 3%.
yeah but using mb/mB instead of M(i)b/M(i)B is a factor of 1 000 000 / 1 024 000 which is more than six magnitudes greater than 8