[G4] Browsers

[Brett Caven]

I think he might have meant:
1GB = 1024MB, not 1GB = 1024000K

On 2/4/07, Doug McNutt <douglist at macnauchtan.com> wrote:
>
> 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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