Re: error in sd.c

Eric Hegstrom (ehegstrom@sonoranscanners.com)
Fri, 22 Jan 1999 12:13:30 -0700

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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