On 20 Jun 2005 at 13:56, Tom Lominac wrote:
> Manufacturers want to present their products in the best light, so when
> they say 128Mb they probably mean 128 million bytes. However, the
> capacity as measured by the operating system is reported in true
> megabytes.
I don't want to be picky, but the use of "true" in this context rankles a bit.
Main Entry: mega-
million : multiplied by one million <megohm> <megacycle>
It'd be nice if folk called the other one something like "computer megabytes".
There's also another intermediate form which is amusing [and adds to yet more
confusion] which is "one thousand K" [again, the computer folk co-opting a
stadard notation to make life confusing, making "K" be 1024]. You get all
three in Explorer: I'm looking at a file that shows up with the size 19,530 KB,
but in properties it shows as 19.0 MB and 19,988,720 bytes.
/Bernie\
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