On 08/05/2006, at 6:10 PM, thefrogs wrote:

Could someone please explain to me, again, the mathematics of bites.
I have an 80 gig HDD that falls to 74.53 on my G5 -in Drive A a loss of 5.5 ^ gig I have a 120 gig HDD that falls to 111.79 on my G5 -in Drive B a loss of 8.1 gig
In times gone by I remember a gig was a gig
Any views
tom samson

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This is reasonably clear on the issue:

http://www.wiebetech.com/whitepapers/BillionEqualBillion.pdf

...just one of those things I guess


Paul