I think acknowledging that we know only a small part of reality is a sign of strength. The more we understand how little we know, the closer we get to world peace, that's my conviction.
But let me write a bit more on this MB: You know that all things computer are based on bits, and therefore, everything is counted in powers of 2. These days, even street kids with MP3 players think in numbers like 64, 128, 256, and 512.
It's a mere coincidence that 2^10, or 1024, is so close to 1000. The
closeness of these two numbers is the reason that people have started to
call 1024 bytes a 'kilobyte', which literally means '1000 bytes'. And
this is basically the discrepancy you have re-discovered.
With 1k, the difference is tiny, but moving to MB and GB it'll be getting bigger; with Terabytes, it'll be 10%, so maybe then more people will start to notice.
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