Hi, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > 18TB "on paper" is usually 18 * 1000^4 bytes, so if you convert this > > into "computer units" is ~16.37 * 1024^4 bytes.
Dan Purgert wrote: > I thought the variance from TB -> TiB was 10%; or have > I gotten it backwards? Merchants insist on decimal only because their cash registers have no buttons for hex digits. 0xA exp 0xC is 0xE8d4A51000 0x2 exp 0x28 is 0x10000000000 0x10000000000 / 0xE8d4A51000 = ~ 0x1.197D938 So it's 0x19.8 per 0x100 loss for us hard working programmers when the scrooges point to the International System of Units as justification for giving us only a single-digit power of 0xA rather than a double-digit power of 0x2. I hope to have made my case sufficiently enough to get programmer's Teras next time i buy a disk. Have a nice day :) Thomas
