[G4] Gigabytes

[John Erdman]

 Check your powers of 2 math.. you're off by a factor of 2^10 .  I.E. 2^10 =
Kilo; 2^20 = Mega and 2^30 = Giga.

Uhhh ... By any chance were you one of the guys who programmmed the
navigation of the Mars probe using English rather than metric units???.

:-)
John 




>> 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>