[G4] CMLXX's anyone....?

[James Asherman]

Doug McNutt wrote:

>At 09:14 -0700 6/7/03, Ron wrote:
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>>No, it this case M means thousand. It comes from Roman numerals (L=50,
>>C=100, M=1000) not the metric system nor computer jargon as in mega or
>>giga...
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>on 6/7/03 6:25 AM, Richard Smykla at rsmykla at verizon.net wrote:
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>>>The letter 'K' is the abbreviation for a thousand. . . kilo
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>And the Imperial unit mile has to do with millia passuum, which I'll bet I have spelled wrong, but it's a thousand paces of a Roman Legion.
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>And the M is still a very common counting unit found in commercial purchase orders. A price per M, or $/M is widely understood to be dollars per thousand quantity. It is not a prefix in that usage.
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>Ant the capital letter K stands for a Kelvin which is a unit of temperature. People who care about precision use a small k for kilo. And they never use m for M. Little m is 1/1000.
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>And k is 1000 base ten. Using K or k for 2^10 or 1024 produces nothing but confusion but it's common in computer "science".
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>And to make it all back on topic. When Apple says your G4 disk is 10 GB does it mean 20 base 10 times 2 to the 30th power - 10,737,418,240 bytes - or does it mean 10,000,000,000 bytes? What about the disk salesman?
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><http://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cuu/Info/Units/binary.html> for a definition of kibi,
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You're making my head hurt here. They're makin' a lot o' chips.
 Those chips are used in IBM servers already.
Jim