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[Walter Dnes]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 04:13:51PM -0500, Jamon Camisso wrote

> That and hard drive manufacturers have long measured sizes in decimal 
> representations of bytes instead of using base2 respresentations. Where 
> 1024^3 is 1,073,741,824 bytes, or 1gb like we're used to in terms of 
> file sizes, ram, etc., hdd manufacturers measure 1gb as 10^9 or 
> 1,000,000,000 bytes.
> 
> So your 160gb drive in decimal works out to a maximum of 149.01gb.

  Actually, *EVERYBODY* used to use giga = 10^9, from the days of the
French Revolution, until the computer industry hijacked the term.  If
you look up Schedule 1 Part V of the "Weights and Measures Act" at
http://laws.justice.gc.ca you'll notice that it's the law of the land
that giga = 10^9.  The computer industry hasn't managed to completely
hijack the term.

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