On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:27:41 +0000, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
>> 2G = 2,000,000,000
>> 2Gi = 2,147,483,648
>
>Where is 2Gi a documented standard, other than IBM-Main?
>
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
In December 1998 the International Electrotechnical Commission
(IEC), the leading international organization for worldwide
standardization in electrotechnology, approved as an IEC
International Standard names and symbols for prefixes for binary
multiples for use in the fields of data processing and data
transmission. ...
Perhaps this hasn't reached Canada, yet.
-- gil
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