-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-01-02 at 14:38 -0600, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
FWIW, when I create a 4000 MB slice, K3B shows it as 3.9 GB and 482 MB As we already know, sizes depend on whether you are a programmer, or
On 2007-01-01 13:27, James Knott wrote: live in the real world:
4 GB = 4*1024 MB = 4096 MB, and 4000 MB = 4000/1024 GB = 3.906 GB
Actually, no. 4 GB = 4*1000 MB = 4000 MB and 4000 MB = 4000/1000 GB = 4.00 GB And: 4 GiB = 4*1024 MiB = 4096 MiB, and 4000 MiB = 4000/1024 GiB = 3.906 GiB Programmers are using the wrong units: prefixes like mega or giga were invented way earlier than programmers were born; they (we) must change and use the new names (mebibyte). The easiest reference I can find: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiB: | The unit was defined by the International Electrotechnical Commission | (IEC) in December 1998. Use of mebibyte and related units is strongly | endorsed by IEEE and CIPM. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFmurttTMYHG2NR9URAsxAAJ9qSFC8143V9a2jcnH8bek/jCF2XgCfexhX PoT9KaZK4skFbFOjSlo6lm4= =qPBR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org