Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Only for hard drive manufacturers, perhaps. > > > > For the rest of the computer world, unless I've missed > > a changing of the guard or something, "kilo" is 1024 > > and "mega" is 1024*1024 and so forth... > > Yes. Unless you work in the telcoms industry, where, for example if > you order a 2 Mbit/s line you'll get > > 2 * 1024 * 1000 bits / s
They must have gotten the idea from floppy disks, which also use a 1024000-byte "megabyte". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
