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[Matt Parlette <831501@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you for taking the time to make Ubuntu better. Since what you
submitted is not really a bug, or a problem, but rather an idea to
improve Ubuntu, you are invited to post your idea in Ubuntu Brainstorm
at http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ where it can be discussed, voted on by
the community, and reviewed by developers. Thanks for taking the time to
share your opinion!

However, I did some more research for you on this and found these few articles:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy - Here is Ubuntu's Policy on units
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix - This wikipedia article describes how there are different abbreviations for decimal and binary numbers. For instance, a kilometer (K) is 1000 meters, but a kibibyte (KiB) is 1024 bytes. I didn't understand this before I read your bug, but after looking at these links it cleared it up.

Let me know if you have any questions about this.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/831501

Title:
  incorrect abbreviations of GB, MB, KB in UI (extra 'i')

Status in “gnome-system-monitor” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  The UI has GiB, MiB, KiB as abbreviations for what I presume are GB, MB, and KB.
  That makes no more sense than using Kim (instead of km) for kilometer.
  I assume that you are correctly using B for byte, even in network bandwidth.
  (If you mean bit, then it should be b and not B.)
  MB - megabyte
  Mb - megabit
  etc.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: gnome-system-monitor 2.28.2-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.47-generic-pae 2.6.38.8
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic-pae i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Aug 22 13:05:29 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-system-monitor
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: gnome-system-monitor
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-06-21 (62 days ago)

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