Yeah, this is old news.  Lame really.  Makes things easier for the
industry though now since they get to short you on the amount of space
they're actually selling you.  :-\

Colin Constant wrote:

>> From: "Carey @ NCSRadio" <careyfisher@NCSRADIO.COM>
>>
>> Does anybody else find this extraordinary or extraordinarily odd?
>> http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
>
>
> Looks like, if there was a battle over what a megabyte meant, "we" lost.
>
> Examples and comparisons with SI prefixes
> one kibibit  1 Kibit = 210 bit = 1024 bit
> one kilobit  1 kbit = 103 bit = 1000 bit
> one mebibyte  1 MiB = 220 B = 1 048 576 B
> one megabyte  1 MB = 106 B = 1 000 000 B
> one gibibyte  1 GiB = 230 B = 1 073 741 824 B
> one gigabyte  1 GB = 109 B = 1 000 000 000 B
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