[G4] Gigabytes

[Doug McNutt]

At 15:43 -0400 4/6/03, Shannon Nugent wrote:
>Oh come on... Lets give him a real answer :0(

Well now. That may be a problem when the meaning of Giga isn't so clear in the computer trade. It might be 2^20 or it might be 10^9 depending on whether you're using or boasting. There's a little over 7% difference. System Profiler offers both.

<http://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cuu/Info/Units/binary.html>

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