On Sunday 31 May 2009 11:51:16 pm Christopher Chan wrote: > That has been the case for years and only recently have I heard this > nonsense of base10 whateverbyte units in stuff other than misleading but > covered my behind disk labels.
The IEEE decided nearly a decade ago that instead of redefining the SI units (which were base 10 long before the invention of digital computers), we should have our own prefixes for 1024-based numbering schemes. -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo
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