[G4] Browsers

Doug McNutt douglist at macnauchtan.com
Sun Feb 4 17:08:06 PST 2007


At 15:26 -0600 2/4/07, O'Brien wrote:
>In computer math a gigabyte is 1,024,000K (not 1,000,000.) A megabyte is 1,024K (not 1,000.)

Actually, I think  a kibibyte is 2^10 = 1024 bytes
A mebibyte is 2^20
and a gibibyte is 2^30 =1024^3 bytes

1,024,000 is none of the above in base 16, 8, or 10

It's nice, in a way, to see computer jocks get fouled by their own arithmetic.

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