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Re: Using standardized SI prefixes



Le mercredi 13 juin 2007 à 15:06 +0100, Scott James Remnant a écrit :
> On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 15:01 +0100, Alex Jones wrote:
> 
> > 1 TB is not rounded. It means precisely 1 × 10^12 bytes, no more and no
> > less.
> > 
> No it doesn't.
> 
> The meaning of 1 TB depends on the context, and has always done so.

The meaning of 1 TB is approximate only for approximate people. I'd
expect more rigor from people working in computer science (if we can
call it a science).

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