GBs Are Units of Measure, Too

While the ISU–and NIST for that matter–is really clear on this (I, too, have read the documents), the fact is that separating units from numbers creates a lot of  formatting problems when word-wrap separates the number and units onto separate lines. It’s quite annoying to either force line breaks or to create non-breaking spaces–especially in value-laden texts.

A different quibble: too often we forget that GB = 10⁹ (= 1,000,000,000) while GiB = 2³⁰ (= 1,073,741,824) — a very important distinction.

32 GB versus 32GB: Almost everyone is writing it wrong.