I think he might have meant:<br>1GB = 1024MB, not 1GB = 1024000K<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Doug McNutt</b> <<a href="mailto:douglist@macnauchtan.com">douglist@macnauchtan.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">At 15:26 -0600 2/4/07, O'Brien wrote:<br>>In computer math a gigabyte is 1,024,000K (not 1,000,000.) A megabyte is 1,024K (not 1,000.)
<br><br>Actually, I think a kibibyte is 2^10 = 1024 bytes<br>A mebibyte is 2^20<br>and a gibibyte is 2^30 =1024^3 bytes<br><br>1,024,000 is none of the above in base 16, 8, or 10<br><br>It's nice, in a way, to see computer jocks get fouled by their own arithmetic.
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