Dan Bishop wrote:
They must have gotten the idea from floppy disks, which also use a 1024000-byte "megabyte".
It's pretty common industry-wide. Memory is measured in binary prefixes (x 1024), but disk space and bandwidth are measured in decimal prefixes (x 1000).
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