On Tuesday 13 August 2002 12:27 am, Felix Miata wrote: > civileme wrote: > > 734003200 is 700Mb remember MB is 2^20 not 10^6 > > 700 Mb is 700*10^6=700,000,000 bits. MB is 10^6 bytes. MiB is 2^20 > bytes. 80 min CD's labeled 700 MB are mislabeled and actually hold 700 > MiB, 734,003,200 bytes. > http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj/binprefixes.html > http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
If we were like Mickey Mouse and had three fingers and one thumb on each hand, this problem wouldn't exist. -- cmg
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