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Article #3490Re: RESPONSE: What size is a 17" monitor really ? buyer accuses fraud. HELP!
From: Bill Muyanja
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 1994 04:50
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 1994 04:50
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In article <1994Apr8.224856.25548@rosevax.rosemount.com>,
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>What I find amazingly dumb is when they specify a drive size in MB where
>1 MB = 1,000,000 bytes rather than 2^20. Don't tell me they're quoting
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(I may yet regret this ... but here goes!)
Maybe it's my metric background, but I don't find anything particularly
"dumb" about anything prefixed with "mega" referring to 1 million
(or anything prefixed with "kilo" referring to 1,000 for that matter).
In fact, _every_ definition of mega and kilo that I'm aware of refers
to 1,000,000 and 1,000 units, respectively. Except for the Computer
Science definitions of memory capacity (2^20 and 2^10, respectively).
While I'm completely comfortable with the CS definition, I think
the metric definition is also correct.
Perhaps what is needed is a qualifier on every memory capacity claim.
("We only quote metric bytes!", "Our disk capacities are in pure,
unadulterated binary bytes!").
My 00000010B cents worth.
:-)
Bill
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