* Deryk Barker (dbarker@turing.cs.camosun.bc.ca) [030603 10:38]: > Thus spake John Hasler (john@dhh.gt.org): > > > Deryk Barker writes: > > > Actually it's mainly the hard drive manufacturers. > > > > And the ISO. > > > > > To them 1GB = 1,000,000,000 as you note above. > > > > Correct. Giga -> 10^9 = 1,000,000,000. > > > > > Of course, most software does the right thing and report in terms of > > > powers of 2, where 1GB = 1,073,741,824. > > > > Incorrect. Gibi -> 2^30 = 1,073,741,824. > > Which, unless my eyes are far worse than my optician thinks, is > *precisely* the number I entered above. Look at the unit, not the number. > Evidently I'm missing your point. I think his point was that 1073741824 is a gibibyte, commonly (?) abbreviated as GiB. GB is the abbreviation for gigabyte, 1000000000 bytes. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- Microsoft has argued that open source is bad for business, but you have to ask, "Whose business? Theirs, or yours?" --Tim O'Reilly
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