On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 09:24 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > The difference is a sufficiently small percentage, that most users will > not care.
No, like I said in my earlier post, the error grows quickly. As 1.024^x, in fact. x = 1 kibi vs. kilo 2.4% x = 2 mebi vs. mega 4.9% x = 3 gibi vs. giga 7.4% x = 4 tebi vs. tera 10% Especially nowadays with terabyte disks coming out and hitting the consumer market, there is *no place* for 10% of ambiguity. This was precisely my point earlier. "Back in the day", nobody cared for 2.4% error because all they ever measured anything in was kilo-somethings. -- Alex Jones http://alex.weej.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
