Re: I know it's dumb, but.......

[Tom Rae (WFF)]

I always thought that 1024^n was “right” (powers of two and all that) and that hard drive manufactures choose 1000^n to make their wares look that much larger...   Tom Rae Senior Director, Technical Services Western Canada Loblaw Companies Limited Information Systems Division Notice: This e-mail transmission may contain confidential, proprietary and/or legally privileged information and is intended only for the individual or entity named in the e-mail address. Any disclosure, copying, distribution, or reliance upon the contents of this e-mail not authorized by the sender is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail transmission in error, please immediately reply to the sender, so that proper delivery of the e-mail can be effected, and then please delete the message from your Inbox. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Miguel Delapaz Sent: October 6, 2006 15:26 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: I know it's dumb, but.......   Yes, terribly silly.  Also, OSes generally express file size in 1024^n which can be confusing when determining how many files you can cram on a disk with capacity 1000^n.  Have fun trying to get everyone to change though :-)  1000^n is obviously "right"...but who wants to go and make up different terms when we're "only" off by 24? :-) More wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte Regards, Miguel Delapaz z/VM TCP/IP