On Sep 3, 2008, at 4:51 PM, Doug McNutt wrote:
> >> If you want to avoid a "no-man's land" in a partition, the break >> should be at precisely 131,072 MB. > > A most interesting thread. I'm not about to use the patch but I do > have a question and it's about the meaning of MB and GB in this > context. 131,072 is in base 10, yet your so-called "examples" used other bases. The true professionals in the industry know, implicitly, when base 10, and when another base is being used. In some archaic (and discontinued) architectures, base 8 (octal) is assumed, whereas in a vastly greater family of architectures, hexadecimal (base 16) is assumed. (In commerce, base 10 is assumed, unless otherwise specified, yet there haven't been so-called "decimal" computers made in perhaps 4.5 decades). Presently, bases 2, 10 and 16 are in very common use. And, those "skilled in the art" know which one is which, in a given set of conditions. 131,072 = 128 (base 10) times 1024. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
