For data limiting, it shows “GiB” which after some Googling means “gibibyte”.
I’m not good with numbers so I’m having trouble understanding how it differs from gigabyte i.e. 1000 megabytes.
I’m just not sure if I’m murdering my data plan.
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GiB = Gigabyte = 1024 Megabytes.
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That’s the choice of the Development Team to portray GB as GiB. When you get an Update, double-check the Installer page - you’ll see the same term used, but it means Gigabytes of Storage space.
Feel free to raise a Zendesk Ticket if you want to send them feedback.
Storage devices have traditionally used GB to describe their storage capacity. The way Windows uses GB differs and has always clashed with that.
Sounds like some confusion here
- GiB is gibibyte, not gigabyte; Definitions of the SI units: The binary prefixes (nist.gov) This is however a quite recent definition, less than a quarter of a century old.
- 1 GiB = 1073741824 bytes = 1024 MiB /= 1024 MB
- 1 GB = 1000000000 bytes = 1000 MB
- Is it really true that Asobo say GiB when they mean GB? The more obvious interpretation is they write GiB because they mean GiB?
- For your data plan it should not matter much since the difference is just over 7%, but maybe put the MSFS cap slightly lower than your data plan cap to be sure…
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And, there are 8 bits to a byte. So 1 GB = 8 Gb
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