It depends on how you define a kilobyte. Crappy ms say 1kb = 1000 bytes.
The true world of computers says 1kb = 1024 bytes. Because hex is to the base 2 and decimal is to the base 10 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Negus Sent: 06 March 2003 8:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] tar questions, ta Greg Meyer wrote: > > On Sunday 02 March 2003 02:16 pm, Michael Adams wrote: > > What number of 1k blocks will fit on a 1.44Mb DOS floppy? An empty dos-formatted floppy has 1,457,664 bytes free - which if my calculator doesn't deceive me yields: divided by 1024 gives 1423.5 (1k blocks) divided by 1024 again gives 1.39 (Mb) John _____________________________________________________________________ GRAND JEU SMS : Pour gagner un NOKIA 7650, envoyez le mot IF au 61321 (prix d'un SMS + 0.35 euro). Un SMS vous dira si vous avez gagn�. R�glement : http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/sign.sms
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