On 2001-05-04 08:42 -0700, Ma Be wrote:
> I see no reason whatsoever why the computer industry could not use
> *real* metric prefixes anyhow. Why not provide customers with clean,
> say, 20 GB of space, where this figure would mean exactly 20 000 000
> 000 bytes! Why do they still do things as if a "binary" number of
> bytes would be absolutely necessary???
Disk space and memory are addressed using binary numbers. Limiting the
range to a "clean" 2 x 10^9 would waste some of the address space.
Bruce
