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Re: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?



On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 08:20:45AM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Saturday 16 February 2013 03:20:54 Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> > When dealing with computers, it's powers of 2.  When
> > dealing with distances, it's powers of 10.
> 
> Not so.  Manufacturers of hard drives normally (frequently?) give the size in 
> decimal, though they obviously don't say so, to make them look bigger.

Weird, since we are talking about it this pops up:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/02/11/0254238/when-1-gb-is-really-09313-gigabytes

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