On 01/03/13 17:51, Graham P Davis wrote:
On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:30:51 -0500 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote:
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? ;-)
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