On Wednesday 12 April 2006 00:23, David R. Litwin wrote: > > To put it into perspective, what we think of the Metric system is what > > the rest of the world thinks of English measure. A gigabyte is 1024 MB, > > not 1000, dammit! > > Really? There is a metric byte-system? I've never heard of such a thing. I > even live in Canada and use the metric system!
Yup. SI used retroactive continuity to standardize data measure on powers of 10 instead of 2, with the old power-two values renamed to kibibyte, mebibyte, gibibyte, tebibyte, pebibyte, etc. I'm not convinced us computer geeks are the one that should have to change: We're not the ones who suck. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: Because it's time to move forward http://ursine.ca/Ursine:Jabber
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