metric version of 1000?

[David Lancaster]

On May 1, 2006, at 11:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote:

> Jeff A. Earickson wrote on Mon, 1 May 2006 07:36:14 -0400 (EDT):
>
>> In America we tend to use
>> the old style version of 1024
>
> So, disk space of new hard disks is announced "correctly" in the US? I
> don't believe marketing would allow this ;-)
>

Heck no.  Can't exaggerate that way...

Binary vs SI prefixes:  http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

David
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