I purchased a 16 GB thumbdrive this afternoon. After I plugged it into a
USB port, I checked my "Computer" window and it told me it was a "14.9
GB" drive. Sure enough
14.9E9 * (1024)^3 = 16.0E9
and the "Computer" window should have told me I had a 14.9 GiB drive.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, quite nicely points out the distinction
between SI prefixes and prefixes for binary multiples.
Jim
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James R. Frysinger
632 Stony Point Mountain Road
Doyle, TN 38559-3030
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