On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 14:17 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 21:12 -0700, Grant wrote:
> > I have a 320GB hard drive
>
> yes, a 320 "gigabyte" hard drive, as opposed to a 320
> "gibibyte"[1][2][3] hard drive. Technically 1 gigabyte is one million
> bytes,
*sigh* it's been a long week, please be nice to me :)
1 gigabyte is of course one thousand million bytes (1,000,000,000B) not
one million bytes. That would be a megabyte...
here and everywhere else I stuffed up, but the calculations still hold.
thanks.
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