Hi, Saturday, August 9, 2003, 9:55:28 PM, you wrote:
> That probably true because I'm pretty sure > 1 kB =1024 bytes Thus 1000kB = 1.024 million bytes. In the metric system 'kilo' is 1,000 and 'mega' is 1,000,000. It is only the computer world that has confused things by treating kilo as 1024 and mega as 1024 x 1024 (or sometimes 1024 x 1000). This use in computing has no official definition or standing, unlike the metric system. If somebody sold you a disk which they claimed held 100 megabytes and you found it held only 80 bytes, you would have no standard definition of 'megabytes' to fall back on if you tried to get your money back. There is an international standard which is supposed to replace the use of kilo- to mean 1024 and mega- to mean 1024x1024. One million Nerdie points to anyone who can tell us what the new terms are. -- Cheers, Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
