2001-05-02
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From: "Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, 2001-05-02 18:13
Subject: [USMA:12593] Re: WSJ letters
> Microsoft, on the other hand, shows the actual capacity of your disk drive
> in full, without prefixes, then shows an approximation that is, in fact,
in
> gibibytes, but expresses it using the giga prefix (i.e., as GB). On my
> laptop, it shows (at this instant) as:
>
> Used space: 5,340,479,488 bytes 4.97 GB
> Free space: 6,716,588,032 bytes 6.25 GB
>
> Capacity: 12,057,067,520 bytes 11.2 GB
>
> Note the commas, in spite of the fact that I have Windows Me configured to
> use spaces between groups of three digits. Microsoft doesn't always pay
> attention to its own configuration data. <g>
>
> Bill Potts, CMS
> Roseville, CA
> http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
At least this is a true Gibibyte. That is where 1 GiB = 1024 x 1024 x 1024
B. I heard of cases where a "megabyte" was 1000 x 1024 B and other times
where it was 1024 x 1024 B. It seems there is no consistency.
So, when are we going to start seeing products using the binary prefixes. I
have yet to see these terms or symbols in use anywhere. The use of the
binary prefixes should end any confusion between the meaning of kilo, mega
and giga.
John
Keiner ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als derjenige, der irrt�mlich glaubt
frei zu sein.
There are none more hopelessly enslaved then those who falsely believe they
are free!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
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