1760 yards in a mile. :-)

Jack

--- Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > 1024 unless you're talking about the listed
> capacity of a harddrive, 
> > then it's 1000 (The HDD manufacturers do this
> specifically to make their 
> > drives look bigger than they actually are).
> 
> This is also done by many of us, just for
> simplicity.  Heck, 1000 is more
> "metric system" than 1024, anyway - 1024 sounds like
> the number of yards in
> a mile or something (yes, I do know its not 1024
> yards in a mile - <g>).
> 
> Fred
> 
> 


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