Messages in this thread |  | | Date | 17 Dec 1996 23:56:34 -0000 | From | rdm@tad ... | Subject | GB vs MB crap |
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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.
-- Raul
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