22 Jan
1999
22 Jan
'99
4:08 a.m.
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Megan wrote:
Following up to my own post...
I think the problem with '1.44 Mb' is that IBM chose to refer to
the exact number of bytes without using the power-of-two term
properly.
If so, how does 1474560 become 1.44M, not 1.47M?
The only way is to mix the terms, and use 1024000 as a meg! That is
NEITHER the power of ten, NOR the power of two. In addition, it is NOT
what they then use to measure memory!
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