On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 02:35:25PM +0000, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: > Oh I should be clear too. We use SI powers of 10, just like for > bandwidth, not powers of two like for storage. We quote in Megabytes > because caps are usually in gigabytes, so it's more clear for users.
IEC 60027-2 prefixes eliminate the ambiguity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix Basically, to make base-2, replace letters 3 and 4 of the prefix with "bi" for binary. -- ``Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.'' -- Albert Einstein -><- <URL:http://www.subspacefield.org/~travis/>
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