Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

[Matthias Julius <mdeb@julius-net.net>]

"David R. Litwin" <presently42@gmail.com> writes:

>> To put it into perspective, what we think of the Metric system is what the
>> rest of the world thinks of English measure.  A gigabyte is 1024 MB, not
>> 1000, dammit!
>
> Really? There is a metric byte-system? I've never heard of such a thing. I
> even live in Canada and use the metric system!

Yes, there is.  As example here is part of the output of mdadm:

  Array Size : 468872448 (447.15 GiB 480.13 GB)
  Device Size : 156290816 (149.05 GiB 160.04 GB)
                                  ^^^        ^^

Note there is GiB (gibibyte) which is 1024 MiB (mebibyte) and there is
GB (gigabyte) which is 1000 MB (megabyte).

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte

Matthias