O'Brien wrote: > On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 07:42:18 -0800, keith_w wrote: >> How do you get to 7/8ths of a full Gig? 896 MB is an odd number, in >> my mind. Just a curiosity! > In computer math a gigabyte is 1,024,000K (not 1,000,000.) A megabyte is 1,024K (not 1,000.) > > One gig / 8 = 128MB X 7 = 896MB I just *knew* I'd phrased the question incorrectly! <g> I'm aware of all the calculations, and all the differences. What I was unaware of was that you could still buy 156 MB sticks, or that all modern CPUs would accept them. Oh well, no big deal.... Thanks, keith whaley