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xxGreenRoblox Jul 30, 2023 @ 6:32pm
Does steam use binary or decimal units
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Originally posted by Joke:
The storage manager uses the same units as Windows, so binary sizes.

1 kB = 2^10 B
1 MB = 2^20 B
1 GB = 2^30 B
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I don't know how Mac's handles it.
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Glimmer Jul 30, 2023 @ 7:27pm 
In what context? I think there have been some ARG/puzzle stuff that had binary, but almost everything users interact with is decimal. Probably more things in hexadecimal than binary if you start digging.
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xxGreenRoblox Jul 31, 2023 @ 3:31pm 
Originally posted by Glimmer:
In what context? I think there have been some ARG/puzzle stuff that had binary, but almost everything users interact with is decimal. Probably more things in hexadecimal than binary if you start digging.
For storage units like how much space something takes on your computer.
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Joke Jul 31, 2023 @ 4:54pm 
The storage manager uses the same units as Windows, so binary sizes.

1 kB = 2^10 B
1 MB = 2^20 B
1 GB = 2^30 B
...

I don't know how Mac's handles it.
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xxGreenRoblox Aug 1, 2023 @ 8:58am 
Originally posted by Joke:
The storage manager uses the same units as Windows, so binary sizes.

1 kB = 2^10 B
1 MB = 2^20 B
1 GB = 2^30 B
...

I don't know how Mac's handles it.
Okay
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nullable Aug 1, 2023 @ 9:14am 
Originally posted by xxGreenRoblox:
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In most computing applications binary is what's used when talking about bytes.

The only time I've seen decimal units used consistently is specifically in HDDs/SSDs where they use decimal units to define the size of the drive on the box in advertisements, which is why larger drivers GB's or tens of GB's off once formatted.
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