GB vs MB crap
rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu
17 Dec 1996 23:56:34 -0000
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