Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Jan 1999 17:04:42 +0100 (MET) | From | (Guest section DW) | Subject | Re: error in sd.c |
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From: "Niki W. Waibel" <niki.waibel@gmx.net>
... The 2nd value is wrong! 8,715MB are 8.5GB - and not 8.7GB!!!
You are wrong. 8715 MB is precisely 8.715 GB.
We had this entire discussion a few weeks ago, and you can read all about it in the archives.
Probably I wouldnt have answered but in the meantime I encountered a few more data points:
- Not only is G = 10^9 the SI standard, also the IEEE decided that 1 GB = 10^9 B, that is, the SI standard must (by IEEE compliant engineers) also be used w.r.t. computer memories.
- There is a proposal for a name and prefix notation for the binary 2^20, 2^30 etc, namely Mi, Gi etc. Thus, if you want to show off as a real hacker that cannot be bothered with this decimal stuff, and you just bought a 17 GB disk then you can call it a 15.8 GiB disk. See for example, http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html .
Andries
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