On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 07:27:20PM +0200, amand Tihon wrote: > On Thu, 23 May 2002 10:47:55 -0500 > Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> wrote: > > On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 01:21:34PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > When I get 160 GiB of new HDD space (within a few days), I'm going > > <lart> > > That's spelled "GB". > > </lart> > I recognise it's not well known, but he was right. 1 GiB is 1 gibibyte, > ie 2^30 bytes. > See http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html for more "binary > multiples". That the people who put labels on hard drives are incapable of binary math, and that the IEC feels they have any business meddling with a system that worked fine for years before they decided to get involved, does not make 'GiB' correct, or even useful. That anyone believes this new set of prefixes will /reduce/ confusion when RAM, file sizes, transfer speeds, and bandwidth rates (all of which have a greater direct impact on the average computer user than the total number of bytes available for use on a 160GB hard drive) is positively laughable. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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