On Aug 08, "Mark Boolootian" wrote:

> > if i wanted to convert 41525421960 octets into Gigabytes i would get 
> > 38.6 Gbytes.  ((41525421960 / 1024)/1024)/1024 = 38.6 Gigbytes.
> 
> No, you would get 41.5 GBytes.  Giga means 10^9, not 2^30. 

Mark is referring to the ongoing saga of whether 1024 equals 1024 or 1000.
Here's a good write-up of the subject:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte

Mike
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