[ltp] new computer

[Eben King]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, James McKenzie wrote:

> Yip Wai Peng wrote:
> 
> >They wanted me to BUY it. Which I didn't. Couldn't figure out why I'm paying 
> >for: 
> >1) A H.D of less then usable avaliable capacity then advertised.
> >  
> >
> Hard drives are advertised as being so many GB which is 1,000,000,000 
> bytes not what us computer users call a GB.  This has been and will 
> continue to be an area of contention.  I used to have a formula to 
> convert 1,000,000 <-> MB (1,024 x 1,024 or 1,048,576 bytes).  Also, hard 
> drive capacities are advertised unformatted.  Formatting a hard drive 
> does take up space.

NIST agrees with them now, but there's also a series of binary-derived 
units for us non-marketroids.

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

MB=10^6 B, but MiB=2^20 B

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