Alexander Skwar wrote:
>
> So sprach John Allen am Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 08:52:19AM +0000:
> > 0.2G is not 250MB it's 200MB
>
> Well, actually it is not :]
>
> G = Gigabyte = 1024 MB = 1048576 KB
> 0.2G = 209715.2 KB
>
> 200 MB = 204800 KB = 0.1953125 GB
>
No more:
1 kilobyte (symbol kB) = 10^3 bytes
1 megabyte (symbol MB) = 10^6 bytes
1 gigabyte (symbol GB) = 10^9 bytes
1 kibibyte (symbol KiB) = 2^10 bytes
1 mebibyte (symbol MiB) = 2^20 bytes
1 gibibyte (symbol GiB) = 2^30 bytes
In fact look at here:
http://physlab.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
Bye.
Giuseppe.
