[G4] Too much RAM?

[Doug McNutt]

At 15:03 -0400 6/24/03, Ryan Fleming wrote:
>512x4=2048

One has to be careful about statements like that in the world of computer "science" where, sometimes, G means 2^30, M means 2^20 and K means 2^10. The standard decimal multiplications don't always work the way you think.

512 * 4 = 2k = 2000. -- sometimes to some people and in some help files.

<http://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cuu/Info/Units/binary.html>


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