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http://www.imgur.com/jvehe
Who do you believe?
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Insanity is a small city on the western
border of the State of Mind.
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Darren New <dne### [at] san rrcom> wrote:
> http://www.imgur.com/jvehe
> Who do you believe?
Why for me?
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- Warp
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Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> http://www.imgur.com/jvehe
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>> Who do you believe?
>
> Why for me?
You're the one I most vividly remember complaining that disk drive
manufacturers say 1,000,000,000 bytes is a gigabyte?
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Insanity is a small city on the western
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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> >> http://www.imgur.com/jvehe
> >
> >> Who do you believe?
> >
> > Why for me?
> You're the one I most vividly remember complaining that disk drive
> manufacturers say 1,000,000,000 bytes is a gigabyte?
That must be... at least 5 years ago or more?
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Warp wrote:
> That must be... at least 5 years ago or more?
I thought it had come up repeatedly. :-)
I didn't mean to single you out personally in any way. I just thought you'd
be amused that the two search engines couldn't agree. :-)
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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> I didn't mean to single you out personally in any way. I just thought you'd
> be amused that the two search engines couldn't agree. :-)
The question remains: Which one is correct?
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Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> I didn't mean to single you out personally in any way. I just thought you'd
>> be amused that the two search engines couldn't agree. :-)
>
> The question remains: Which one is correct?
I find it interesting that google thinks 1024 meg is a gig, and wolfram
thinks 1000 meg is a gig. :-) Clearly science disagrees with computers.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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Warp wrote:
> The question remains: Which one is correct?
Whichever one you arbitrarily define as "correct".
Since "kilo" is an SI unit defined as 10^3, I guess that has historical
precedent. (I mean, without SI, would we even call it "kilobytes" in the
first place?)
IIRC, somebody somewhere wanted to start calling it KiB or something
stupid for when you actually mean 2^10...
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Darren New wrote:
> http://www.imgur.com/jvehe
>
> Who do you believe?
http://www27.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=100000MB+to+GiB
IMO it's a good idea to make them discreet like WA does - it makes
cross-calculating possible.
-Aero
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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> IIRC, somebody somewhere wanted to start calling it KiB or something
> stupid for when you actually mean 2^10...
I think that "somebody somewhere" would be the International
Electrotechnical Commission.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers also adopted
the naming convention in their IEEE 1541-2002 standard, as well as the
European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization.
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