On Mi, 13 feb 13, 14:08:15, Richard Hector wrote: > On 12/02/13 22:43, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > My machine has got 4GB RAM too, but only 1,000,000,000 hex-bytes ;p. > > Serious, there is no other correct sum than 4,294,967,296 bytes. For an > > old former Assembler programmer it's disgusting to distinguish between > > GB and GiB. OTOH kilos etc. are 10^x, but for the computer I do the math > > based on 1024. > > Abusing the standard prefixes like that was always a horrible hack. +1 It's also a major source of confusion for many users. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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