I had brought up the question a few months back of if 1GB is 1000KB or 1024KB.

Now as everyone knows, historically 1024 Bytes is 1KB. Seems marketing has won the battle in terms of calling a "kilo" 1000 and not 2^10, at least with the government. I have been involved in a thread on comp.sys.sun.hardware about this topic and thought I'd share a posting about this. I'm hoping I'm not the only one unaware of this "new" standardization...

Camiel Vanderhoeven wrote:

Yes, the Ki, Mi, Gi etc. prefixes are a nice initiative to avoid

confusion.

However, I have never seen anyone who seriously uses it. Old habits

don't

vanish that easily. I think the simbol "KB" and the word "kilobyte" have

been

used for 1024 bytes since the early days of computing. You can't expect everyone to change this into "KiB" and "kibibyte" because the SI

committe

decides so in 1998. Not seriously.

Camiel.

hac hchristeller@home.com wrote:

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Jay Orr wrote:

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I got into a discussion about a similar matter on another discussion group. Some vendors think 1 GB is 1000 MB, while others will say 1

GB is

...

...

1024 MB. Varies by OS too. No one could is quite sure who uses

which.

...

...

So, it could also be a 650MB CDROM would hold 0.634 GB....

1 GB is 1000 MB, 1 GiB is 1024 MiB. Any other use is sloppiness.

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

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----------- Jay Orr Systems Administrator Fujitsu Nexion Inc. St. Louis, MO