On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:30:51 -0500
Felix Miata
On 2013-02-28 19:21 (GMT) Graham P Davis composed:
I reckon the 4.7Gb is an advertising gimmick to make it seem they hold more than they do. The figure is achieved by counting in 1000s instead of 1024s.
There's no gimmickry involved. 1000 and 4.7GB are decimal values, powers of 10, numbers most people use and understand better than binary, octal or hex. 4.7GB is approximately equivalent to 4.4GiB, which is a power of 2.
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
I wasn't being entirely serious in my remark; perhaps I should have added a smiley to make that obvious. If people understand powers of 10 better than octal, shouldn't a byte be changed to 10 bits instead of 8? ;-) -- Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks. openSUSE 12.3-RC2 (64-bit); KDE 4.10.00; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor; Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nouveau driver); Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA); Wireless: BCM4306 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org