Re: Mass storage sizes
Kushal Kumaran (12025-01-07):
> I point people to http://www.tarsnap.com/GB-why.html which is where I
> was first enlightened.
Mostly something anybody should learn in junior high school physics,
freshman high-school at worst.
Except for one point: “this is a special case”. Except they are wrong
about where the special case: it would be absurd for the same unit to
mean something different depending on what it measures, so if you accept
that one giga-octet of RAM is 1024^3 octets, you have to accept it
everywhere of be ridiculously inconsistent with bad practical
consequences.
--
Nicolas George
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