On 12/02/13 22:43, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > My machine has got 4GB RAM too, but only 1,000,000,000 hex-bytes ;p. > Serious, there is no other correct sum than 4,294,967,296 bytes. For an > old former Assembler programmer it's disgusting to distinguish between > GB and GiB. OTOH kilos etc. are 10^x, but for the computer I do the math > based on 1024.
Abusing the standard prefixes like that was always a horrible hack. GiB is a nice way to give humans a rough idea of what scale we're talking about, while giving the standard multipliers their proper meaning back. Perhaps we should just give up, and call it 10^8 base 16? (I think you got an extra 0 there?) - or 10^100000 base 2 :-) Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/511ae77f.10...@walnut.gen.nz
