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- From: s_fuller@iastate.edu (Steve Fuller)
- Subject: Re: The maxtor 213 meg drive is NOT 213 megs!
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- References: <lestrade.725128294@Ra.MsState.Edu> <s106275.725140761@ee.tut.fi> <1992Dec24.103209.21401@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 17:36:27 GMT
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- In <1992Dec24.103209.21401@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> lew@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Kevin A. Lew) writes:
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- >>>213,000,000 is not 213 megs (213 megs=213*1024*1024)
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- >213,000,000 bytes *IS* 213 Megabytes. MS-DOS lists the free space
- >you have on your hard drive in bytes. Since MEGA = 10^6,
- >213 Megabytes is 213,000,000 bytes. In addition, 1 kilobyte is not
- >1,024 bytes. It is 1,000 bytes. I just studied this stuff in
- >a communication networks course and when I was studying for the CS GRE..
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- I hope that you are joking... every com sci course I have ever
- taken lists 1 K as 1024 bytes, since it is an even power of two.
- Most of the time, I have been told, it is safe to approximate
- with 1000. I'd tend to take 1024 as the base figure for 1 K
- myself.
-
-
- >Hope this clarifies things..
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