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SubjectGB vs MB crap

Taner Halicioglu:
> If you look in any physics or math or other textbook, you will see
...
> If a vendor says a drive is "540 MB" or even "540 MegaBytes", he could
> realistically mean either.

No.

In a math context, that might easily be 540 times M times B. In a
physics context, that might be something like 540E-22 square meters.

In the context of bytes, mega means 2^20.

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Raul

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