On Sunday 01 February 2009 17:59:07 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/01/2009 02:49 PM, Lee Glidewell wrote: > > > > No, the issue is that manufactures advertise in *1000, while computers > > use > > Hard drive manufacturers, not RAM manufacturers. > > My beard's grey enough to remember when drive manufacturers measured > drive capacity in binary KB, not decimal. > > > bytes in *1024. The recent convention that's come into place to represent > > this is between Kilo/Mega/Giga-bytes (*1000) and Kibi/Mebi/Gibi-bytes > > (*1024). > > > > So a stick of memory advertised as 4 Gigabytes is going to present itself > > to your computer as 3.84 Gibibytes, roughly. > > If that were true, I'd have 8 * 10^9 bytes of RAM, and this > demonstrates that error: > <snipped work>
Okay, I stand corrected. I guess I had assumed that RAM was sold this way as well, and hadn't bothered to do the math to check it. You know what they say about people who assume. ;) I'll go stand in the corner now. Lee -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
