Messages in this thread | | | From | "Lauri Tischler" <> | Date | Thu, 28 Nov 1996 15:16:36 GMT +2 | Subject | Re: GB vs. MB |
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Anno Domini 28 Nov 96 at 20:41, Adam Goryachev wrote:
> 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. > This hole conversation reminds me of a former Secretary of Education who made an idiot of himself by proposing that the value of _pi_ shall be 3, exactly...
We are talking about kilobytes and megabytes of computerstorage, not kilos of tomatos or such..
1kbyte = 1024 1Mbyte = 1024 * 1024 1Gbyte = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 1Tbyte = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024
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