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Closed: Jun 2017
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I am converting bytes into GB. It's giving me wring result

Reported by rajabdul...@gmail.com, Jun 22 2017 
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I am trying to convert bytes into GB. It is giving me wrong result. Please find attached screen shot for more details.
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Comment 1 by woxxom@gmail.com, Jun 22 2017 

The result is correct both mathematically and contextually: Giga means 10^9, which is the unit used by disk manufacturers. Some operating systems such as Windows use the so called binary gigabyte, which is also formally denoted as GiB or gibibyte, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte

Comment 2 by ligim...@chromium.org, Jun 22 2017

Cc: ligim...@chromium.org
Labels: Needs-Triage-M61 Needs-Feedback
Are you using any byte conversion tool? 
Don't think the issue is with chrome.Please provide steps for a repro.

Comment 3 by pmarko@chromium.org, Jun 26 2017

Components: -Enterprise
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
This looks like a Google Search output when searching for "14444444444 bytes in GB". This is not part of Chrome.

Its documentation[1] says that for information size, it can convert between:
bits, nybbles, bytes, metric prefixes: kilobytes (kB), megabytes (MB), binary prefixes: kibibytes (KiB), mebibytes (MiB).

Searching for 14444444444 bytes in GiB gives me 13.452 which is probably what you expected.

So:
- This is not part of chrome
- Please use GiB instead of GB.

Thanks!

[1] https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/3284611?hl=en-DE#unitconverter
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