Örn Hansen wrote:
torsdag 24 juni 2004 14:46 skrev Fergus Wilde:
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 20:38, Alexandr Malusek wrote:
<snip>
The situation will get better when binary prefixes are accepted by general public. Then everybody will understand that 160 GB = 149 GiB.
Don't hold your breath ...
What I'm starting to read out of this thread is that the producers of hard drives have never really used GB in it's correct sence, but as base 10 number? So, My 80 GB hard drive, is really 80.000.000.000 bytes. Which, when divided by the binary base, would be 74 GB.
But, dear boy ... that's not really the public ignorance. That's actually borders on fraud on behalf of the producers. Since, by convention ... A KB always refers to 1024 Bytes, and a Mega Byte always refers to a 1024 * 1KB. The producers use of the notation, is used despite the convention ... no, don't even TRY to tell me that they're right, because every kid from here to timbuktu would have been flunked in answering a GB anything different than a 1024*1024*1024 Bytes, in any University. Unless you want to say all the professors were wrong, in which case I say good luck. The indicator G for Giga does not refer to any base at all. It is not "dependant" on the 10 base. It ONLY, and I mean ONLY refers to the power factor. And since Byte is a base 2 number, then a GB most certainly is too.
It's the way of the world, I hadn't visited MacDonalds for quite a while, I ordered a large milk shake, it looked like a medium so I queried it only to be told it was a large ........ Caveat Emptor ..... they're always inventing ways to screw you out of your cash and send you away thinking you just got a good bargain. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer ===== LINUX ONLY USED HERE =====