Talk:File size

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It's not specifically mentioned, but everyone seems to have taken file size to mean bytes (or characters), instead of (perhaps), the size of the file in lines (records). -- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 20:10, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

And for good reason - "bytes" is as close as we have to an unambiguous standard for file size. Absent any specification of some other mechanism, "size in bytes" is the most reasonable interpretation of the current task description. Also, "size in lines" would introduce unnecessary complexity (what is a line?) and computation (no modern OS provides an efficient mechanism for obtaining the number of lines in a file). --Rdm (talk) 20:23, 24 April 2013 (UTC)