Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 11/20/2005 06:15 AM, steve wrote:
suse_no64.iso 4.4Gb (4,736,907,264)
K3B tells me that it will not fit onto a 4.7GB DVD-R
The capacity of a DVD-R is 4.7 billion bytes, and contrary to what most programmers would like us to believe, that *is* 4.7 gigabytes. Also contrary to what many programmers would like us to believe, the fault is theirs, not the rest of the planet.
I don't know what collective group of morons decided to deviate from the standard international definitions of "kilo" etc, but those were defined in science, engineering, and whatever else you want to consider, long before the first computer was ever conceived. We are told that we are always able to tell what the prefixes K, M and G mean "in context," but clearly this is not so.
4.7 Gyga-Byte to Gibi-Byte= (4.7 * 2^9 ) / 2^20 = 4,48227 Gibi-byte Sorry, I'm a physicist. A gigabyte is a billion (milliard in Europe) bytes, and that is 1 GB. When the international scientific community makes an announcement to the contrary, I'll buy into this, but I can assure you, "G" will always mean 10^9. If programmers want to try to undo the mess they've made, let *them* create a new, different, notation for their concoction. Otherwise, they make no more sense than the mother who complained her son the brand-new soldier was not out of step, it was
On 11/20/2005 09:51 AM, DavideListello wrote: the rest of the army that was out of step.