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Re: Mini, Micro, Maxi, Macro, Kilo, etc. (was: Re: Pink spaceship)
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Mon, 18 Oct 1999 17:21:10 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
> Kilo- is what equals 10^3...unless you're talking about Kilobytes, in which
> case it means 2^10 instead of 10^3...
Unless it's a hard drive, and then a Kilobyte is 10^3 (and for awhile
was even actually measuring the "unformatted" capacity).
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 | | Re: Mini, Micro, Maxi, Macro, Kilo, etc. (was: Re: Pink spaceship)
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| (...) Not necessarily. Some harddrives think a kilobyte is 10^3, and a megabyte is 10^6, and a gigabyte is 10^9. Some harddrives think a kilbyte is 2^10, a megabyte is 2^20, and a gigabyte is 10^3 * 2^20. Others think a gigabyte is 2^30. Endless (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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