There is a movement afoot to replace the imprecise usage of metric prefixes. The three-power-of-ten usage would retain the regular prefix, but the ten-power-of-two would be the first part of the prefix, with the last syllable replaced with bi: thus kibibyte, mebibyte, gibibyte. It sounds kludgy to me, but if that's your thing, there's your answer: I'd provide a URL, but it's been a year or so and I've forgot.
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > > > > I've experienced the same with a supposedly ~4.3GB seagate, which both the > > BIOS and Linux read as 4.1GB... your guess makes a lot of sense, and its > > consequence is that we're being fooled by HDD manufacturers. > > No, you're not. > > You're just not paying attention to how we computer users use the SI prefix > "giga" imprecisely, and to the fact that disk capacities aren't inherently > tied to powers of two they way memory capacities are (through address bus > widths). > > Remember that there's the real (SI standard) "kilo" (1000) and our binary > "kilo" (1024) prefix, the real "mega" and a fully binary "mega" (along with > a hybrid), and the real "giga" and fully binary "giga" (and two hydrids). > > > Daniel > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > Pardon me, but you have obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a damn. email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
