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Re: [SLE] Hard drive size question
- From: elefino <kevinmcl@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 08:19:13 -0400
- Message-id: <200406240819.13825.kevinmcl@xxxxxxxx>
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 15:38, Alexandr Malusek wrote:
[...]
> 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.
Has anyone ever met a millibit?
Information has "sub-atomic" particles? :-)
Kewl!
Er... that is... I mean........ partially kewl.
Kevin
[...]
> 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.
Has anyone ever met a millibit?
Information has "sub-atomic" particles? :-)
Kewl!
Er... that is... I mean........ partially kewl.
Kevin
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