Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Adam Goryachev" <> | Subject | Re: GB vs. MB | Date | Thu, 28 Nov 1996 20:41:07 +1100 |
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> To really see the problem with traditional MB and GB, > you should convert all these nembers to GB in your head, > using 2^30 or 10^9 as you prefer: > > 20,000,000,000 > 402,000,000,000 > 123,000,000,000 > 1,000,000,000 > 9,000,000,000 > > Traditionalists will need to do 39-bit division in their head, > while modern people just do a decimal shift right.
I sit here and see many people try to give this as an excuse for using 10^^9 for 1Gb, but that is simply ludicrous when I can turn around and ask you to convert the following to Gb:
10485760 10240000 etc....
IMHO, I would much prefer 1kb to be 1024 bytes and 1Mb to be 1024kb.
but then, its just my 0.00195kc worth
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