Almost Always Megabytes

Most of you reading this would be familiar with the SI prefixes. They’re those things that you put in front of unit names to make them bigger and smaller. 1 km = 1000 m, 1 MPa = 1 000 000 Pa, etc. They’re super easy to use. So why don’t we use them in computer science? First, a quiz Ok, that’s half a lie. We do use them in computer science. But we also don’t use them. And we sometimes get confused…