On Aug 08, "Mark Boolootian" wrote: > > if i wanted to convert 41525421960 octets into Gigabytes i would get > > 38.6 Gbytes. ((41525421960 / 1024)/1024)/1024 = 38.6 Gigbytes. > > No, you would get 41.5 GBytes. Giga means 10^9, not 2^30.
Mark is referring to the ongoing saga of whether 1024 equals 1024 or 1000. Here's a good write-up of the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte Mike _______________________________________________ Flow-tools mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.splintered.net/mailman/listinfo/flow-tools
