On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Giovanni Tirloni <gtirl...@sysdroid.com> wrote:
> IMHO, what matters is that pretty much everything from the disk controller
> to the CPU and network interface is advertised in power-of-2 terms and disks
> sit alone using power-of-10. And students are taught that computers work
> with bits and so everything is a power of 2.
>

Apparently someone wrote false information on Wikipedia [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_rate_units#Examples

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