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[Koenraad Lelong <k.lelong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alexandr Malusek wrote:

> Steve Kratz <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>
> > The difference is due to the wonderful world of hard drive manufacturer's
> > marketing departments.
>
>
> Standards define SI (k,M,G,...) and binary (Ki, Mi, Gi, ...) prefixes,
> see e.g. http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html.  The problem
> is that (1) people are not aware of these standards, and (2) people
> ignore them.  The situation will get better when binary prefixes are
> accepted by general public.  Then everybody will understand that 160
> GB = 149 GiB.
>
> BTW, 100 mb stands for 100 millibits.
Are those bits or bytes ? Another cause of confusion. Or do you mean to
say B=bytes, b=bits ?
After more than 20 year in computers, I was not aware that there was a
'standard' :-(.
I just looked into that link, and we will have to adapt our speach also :
Q : How much memory does your PC have ?
A : It has one gibibyte of RAM.
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Met vriendelijke groeten,
Koenraad Lelong
R&D Manager
ACE electronics n.v.