On Thu, Aug 25, 2016, at 19:50, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Historically, there are *three* different meanings for "MB", only one of > which is an official standard: > > http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
The link doesn't work for me... is the third one the 1,024,000 bytes implicit in describing standard-formatted floppy disks as "1.44 MB" (they are actually 1440 bytes: 80 tracks, 2 sides, 18 512-byte sectors) or "1.2 MB" (15 sectors). _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
