I've seen in the small print of the IBM adds something like this: "For hard drives 1 GB means 1 billion bytes" Maybe they're finally coming around to using SI prefixes for SI quantities? greg >>> "Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2001-05-02 11:23:33 >>> Jonathan Dowling wrote: > Yes, but they should be. This problem (that a "kb" is > actually 1024 bytes) annoys me greatly because having > to explain to people that "k" always means 1000 unless > you mean computer bytes confuses them, reinforcing the > belief that the metric system is complicated. See http://metric1.org/binprfx.htm. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
