Going in between Europe and the US a lot I am still confused by imperial units, but at the same time disappointed that there is no imperial unit for data. The US uses kilobytes and kibibytes like everyone else in the world. Why?? Here's a proposal: 
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Translating in between ClB and KiB is really easy, just multiply by 2.6392! If the mathematical operation would result in fractions of bytes or even bits, the result should be rounded up to the next byte, because bigger is better.
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There is still some historical dispute if Clinton used a Windows computer to send the email, that would result in 2 bytes per line feed character, overall 8 more bytes. So a Cliwibyte is 396 bytes.
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It is however commonly accepted that only line feeds consciously created by the president via hitting "Enter" should be counted, and line feeds that might have been caused by automatic wrapping in the email client before sending the email should be ignored.
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The next bigger unit, the Hiclibyte, should be based on the size of all emails on Hillary Clinton's home email server.
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Can't wait for hard disk vendors, cell service providers, and Amazon Web Services switching over to these more natural units.
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this is an interesting idea but imo still too beholden to euro pencil-pushers in its use of 8-bit 'bytes'. a more natural foundation would be a unit, call it say a 'nibble', which consists of say 5 or 7 bits - more in tune with the size of human working memory.
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Thanks for your valuable feedback. My updated suggestion would be to base this system on ASCII characters which are encoded in 7 bits, plus the A stands for American. What do you think?
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