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

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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


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