Wow, I wake up one morning, and the definition of Megabytes change.
Did anyone explain this to the computers? The last time I checked, they still 
used binary.. ;)

bob.

On Dec 27, 2011, at 8:54 AM, Mikkel Islay wrote:

> 
> On 27 Dec 2011, at 17:48, Robert Monaghan wrote:
>> 
>> I have a file that is 352524244 bytes in size.
>> My application calculates it to be 336.19 Megs in size.
>> Finder displays this as 352.5 MB.
>> 
>> So, if I am not mistaken, Apple isn't dividing by 1024, but rather by 1000?
>> 
>> Has anyone else had to work though this?
> 
> Why, yes. :)
> Have a look at these pages:
> http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2419
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte#cite_note-4
> 
> Mikkel

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