6 Dec
2014
6 Dec
'14
12:40 p.m.
On Sat, 6 Dec 2014, Johnny Billquist wrote:
I should actually do my math before commenting. :-)
It just happens, that by a funny accident, 1440*1024 is actually 1,474,560.
But still. The actual size of the floppy wasn't decided because you
pulled out 1440*1024, but because of the format of the darn thing.
1.44MB is just the closest "nice" number you can come up with after the
fact as a way to talk about the capacity of the thing.
It is not an exact number, but they seldom are, when we talk about
storage. People like to round things off, to make it easier to talk about.
It is NOT a "nice" number.
Honest numbers would be either 1.47 or 1.4
There is no legitimate way to come up with 1.44 unless you cheat and MIX
powers of 10 and powers of 2.