On 4/14/07, David Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 14, 2007, at 7:36 PM, Thibouille wrote: > > > Very common. Same goes for hard drives. > > Manufacturer sell devices with capacity calculated as if (only > > marketting purpose of course) 1GB was 1000 MB, 1MB = 1000KB and 1 KB = > > 1000 Bytes which of course wrong (1024, not 1000). > > To be pedantic, SI prefixes really are base-10 so IMO the > manufacturers are actually telling the truth. > > - Dave > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >
Computers don't use base 10. Truth? It's only a lie, even if they call it 'standard' and try to force us to use ridiculous designations like 'kibibytes' and 'mebibytes'. I'm a programmer, and I know 1 km = 1024 meters ;) -- Best regards, Alex Sarbu -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
