Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

On Jan 22 2007 15:43, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>
>On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 05:58:42PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> For "F"s sake, when you gotta use abbreviations, then just use k=1000 and
>> K=1024 already, b for bits and B for bytes. Problem gone.
>
>And for 10^6 vs 2^20?

"My harddisk is a 251 gB" actually even though it is advertised as 250 GB.


	-`J'
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References:
- Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)
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- Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)
  - From: Eduard Bloch <[email protected]>
- Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)
  - From: [email protected] (Lennart Sorensen)
- Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)
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- Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)
  - From: [email protected] (Lennart Sorensen)

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