Am 2007-06-15 17:36:33, schrieb Ivan Jager: > On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Yes. But you can't infer which one (1000 or 1024) MB mean. When you buy > >a disk, what do the vendor says the capacity is? 80 GB. But your > >software states it is no more than 75GB. What the fuck!? If GiB is > >confusing to users, so is base 2. People use base 10 and k (kilo) means > >1000, M (Mega) means 10^6, G (Giga) means 10^9, etc., because they are > >used to base 10. > > How about when you buy 80 GB of RAM, and your software says you have > 88 GB?
You are fucked too, since your 486 does
only support 67108864 Byte of ram. -- Oops!
> How about using these prefixes to unambiguously refer to powers of 10?
> kd kidi 10^3
> Md meda 10^6
> Gd gida 10^9
> Td teda 10^12
> Pd peda 10^15
> Ed exda 10^18
> Zd zeda 10^21
> Yd yoda 10^24
>
> Come on, you know you want a yodameter. :)
ROTFL!
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
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