5 Dec
2014
5 Dec
'14
9:18 p.m.
"based on 1GB = 1 billion bytes"
There are even, historically, disputes on what a "billion" is!
(a thousand million V a million million)
If "kibi", "mebi", "gibi", [what is T?] were to have been
introduced half
a century earlier, then we wouldn't have this ongoing silly fight!
But, does ANYBODY feel that there is any justification for "Megabyte"
being calculated as 10^3 * 2^10 ??!? (1024,000)
That is what is used, and the only way to come up with a 1.4M floppy being
"1.44MB". For those not arithmetic challenged, multiply 80 * 2 * 18 * 512
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com