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- From: v923137@vms.ucc.okstate.edu
- Subject: Re: The maxtor 213 meg drive is NOT 213 megs!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.113624.1@vms.ucc.okstate.edu>
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- References: <lestrade.725128294@Ra.MsState.Edu> <s106275.725140761@ee.tut.fi> <1992Dec24.103209.21401@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1992Dec24.124622.23835@cc.tut.fi>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 17:36:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec24.124622.23835@cc.tut.fi>, s106275@cc.tut.fi (Anssi Saari) writes:
- >
- > In <1992Dec24.103209.21401@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> lew@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Kevin A. Lew) writes:
- >
- >>>>213,000,000 is not 213 megs (213 megs=213*1024*1024)
- >
- >>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..
- >
- >>Hope this clarifies things..
- >
- > No, this is wrong. Here's a quote from the New Hacker's dictionary:
- >
- > "Confusing 1000 and 1024 (or other powers of 2 and 10 close in magnitude) - for
- > example, describing a memory in units of 500K or 524K instead of 512K - is a
- > sure sign of the marketroid."
- >
- > Of course, you ARE partly right, but not in this issue: one kilometer is 1000
- > meters, one kilogram is 1000 grams, one megawatt is 1e6 watts etc etc, but
- > this does not go for bytes. One kilobyte is 1024**1 == 2**10 bytes, one
- > megabyte is 1024**2 == 2**20 == 1,048,576 bytes, one gigabyte is 1024**3 ==
- > 1,073,741,824 bytes etc.
- >
- > Anssi
-
- At least someone has their brain on today...
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