On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 10:25:28AM +0100, Wulfy wrote: > CaT wrote: > >Because dividing by a multpile of 10 essentially simply moves the > >decimal point to the left. The thing that's not bleedingly obvious > >there though is that 156290816 is in kibibytes. :) So: > > > >156290816 * 1024 / 1000 / 1000 / 1000 ~= 160.04 GB :) > > > >Similar for 468872448. > If it's decimal, what's that "1024" doing there and why the odd number > "156290816" for a "Kibibyte"? Surely they should ALL be powers of 10? > > Seems a tad inconsistent to me... > > Besides... 1024 is "decimal"... 2^10!!! :?
because the sizes are measured in blocks originally, and a block is 1024 bytes, which is one KiB but 1.024 KB. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
