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== Further reading == * {{cite web|url=http://www.iec.ch/zone/si/si_bytes.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090403051731/http://www.iec.ch/zone/si/si_bytes.htm|archive-date=2009-04-03|title=When is a kilobyte a kibibyte? And an MB an MiB?|publisher=International Electrotechnical Commission|date=2007-02-12}} – An introduction to binary prefixes * {{cite web|url=http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html|title=Prefixes for binary multiples|publisher=[[NIST]]}} * {{Cite press release|url=https://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/techbeat/tb9903.htm#Information%20Technology|title=Get Ready for the mebi, gibi and tebi|publisher=[[NIST]]|date=1999-03-02|access-date=2017-07-13 |archive-date=2016-08-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820141603/http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/techbeat/tb9903.htm#Information%20Technology}} * {{cite web|url=http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/information-units.txt|title=What is a Megabyte ...?|author-first=Markus |author-last=Kuhn|author-link=Markus Kuhn (computer scientist)|date=1996-12-29}}—a 1996–1999 paper on bits, bytes, prefixes and symbols * {{cite web|url=http://jdebp.eu./FGA/1mb44-is-not-a-standard-floppy-disc-size.html|author-first=Jonathan|author-last=de Boyne Pollard|title=There is no such thing as a 1.44 MB standard format floppy disc|work=Frequently Given Answers|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161007222128/https://jdebp.eu/FGA/1mb44-is-not-a-standard-floppy-disc-size.html|archive-date=2016-10-07}} * {{cite web|url=http://www.quinion.com/words/turnsofphrase/tp-kib1.htm|title=Kibibyte|date=1999-08-21|author=Michael Quinion|work=World Wide Words|access-date=2002-11-13 |archive-date=2004-06-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040612044148/http://www.quinion.com/words/turnsofphrase/tp-kib1.htm}}—Another description of binary prefixes * {{Cite press release |url=http://www.wiebetech.com/pressreleases/BillionEqualBillion.pdf|title=When One Billion does not equal One Billion, or: Why your computer's disk drive capacity doesn't appear to match the stated capacity |website=WiebeTech |author=James Wiebe|date=2003-10-09|access-date=2010-01-22|journal=|archive-date=2013-12-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131204100206/http://www.wiebetech.com/pressreleases/BillionEqualBillion.pdf}}—White-paper on the controversy over drive capacities
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