Re: GB vs. MB

Adam Goryachev (adamg@dot.net.au)
Thu, 28 Nov 1996 20:41:07 +1100

> To really see the problem with traditional MB and GB,
> you should convert all these nembers to GB in your head,
> using 2^30 or 10^9 as you prefer:
>
> 20,000,000,000
> 402,000,000,000
> 123,000,000,000
> 1,000,000,000
> 9,000,000,000
>
> Traditionalists will need to do 39-bit division in their head,
> while modern people just do a decimal shift right.

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.

but then, its just my 0.00195kc worth

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