Opened 3 years ago
#20806 new enhancement
GUI | Invalid use of symbol convention to express digital sizes
Reported by: | Ricky Tigg | Owned by: | |
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Component: | GUI | Version: | VirtualBox 6.1.32 |
Keywords: | digital size symbols | Cc: | |
Guest type: | all | Host type: | all |
Description
Observed on OS hosts: Linux, Windows.
Hello. Digital sizes exhibited in GUIs are by default expressed in byte (B) unit with their unit prefixes invariably referring to power of 10³ multiples. However a verification of any size expressed in byte unit alone in regard to those VM files having been created by this application, will indicate that they are according to power of 2¹⁰ multiples and therefore systematically faulty exhibited in GUIs, by omitting the mention i, which is part of a valid symbol abbreviation in regard of size; e.g. a correct exhibition to express 1024 bytes would be 1 KiB, not 1 KB.