VirtualBox

Opened 3 years ago

#20806 new enhancement

GUI | Invalid use of symbol convention to express digital sizes

Reported by: Ricky Tigg Owned by:
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.

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