Re: 97% use of / system
2008/5/23 Steve Lamb <grey@dmiyu.org>:
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 4:19 am, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> That, or the marketing department of your hard drive manufacturer
>> confuses binary and base-10 exponential expressions.
>
> They don't. HDs always use base-10, not binary. They know it makes the
> drives look bigger.
>
They should measure in unary. They would need a bigger box just to
write the size on it. That should look big.
Dotan Cohen
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