Re: I know it's dumb, but.......

[Miguel Delapaz]

Well, "right" depends on your
perspective.  I was speaking of "right" in terms of the
general SI prefix standards.  1024^n was/is used to simplify our lives
because we (computers) deal with powers of 2.

Regards,
Miguel Delapaz
z/VM TCP/IP Development 


The IBM z/VM Operating System <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU>
wrote on 10/06/2006 02:45:57 PM:

> I always thought that 1024^n was “right” (powers of two and all

> that) and that hard drive manufactures choose 1000^n to make their

> wares look that much larger...
>  
> Tom Rae