Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Jan 1999 12:13:30 -0700 | From | Eric Hegstrom <> | Subject | Re: error in sd.c |
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Guest section DW wrote:
> No, you are not willing to understand. Things are so simple: > 1 M = 1000000. 1 G = 1000000000. > That is the SI norm. That is the IEEE norm as I learned recently. > That is what device manufacturers use. (Of course.) > That is what Windows uses if I understand people correctly.
Well under NT if I check the properties of a file that is 16,215,628 Bytes, it claims it is 15.4 MB ( 16215628/(1024*1024) ) = 15.464427948. So they do use the 1024B/KB 1024KB/MB convention. The Mac has always done it this way too. My own opinion is to stick to that but the SI and IEEE folks never ask me ;)
cheers
-Eric
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