[G4] International System of Units (SI) (was: Browsers)

[John Baltutis]

On 02/04/07, 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.

See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabytes> for a reasonable explanation on
bits and bytes and <http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html> for the
definitive answer on SI.