Re: [MiNT] 2 GB == 2 GB

["Rainer Seitel" <Rainer.Seitel@web.de>]

Stefan Berndtsson <stefan@nocrew.org> wrote at 2000-03-20:
> "George Crissman" <strads@tmisnet.com> writes:
>
> > Ah, but 10 Megabytes of RAM (10.485E6) will not
> > fit into 10 Megabytes of Disc (10.0E6).
> >
> > That was why there was a problem.  We needed
> > 11 Megabytes of disc to hold 10 Megabytes of RAM.
>
> 10 Megabytes of RAM fits perfectly fine into 10 Megabytes
> of Disc.
>
> 10 Megabytes of RAM will not fit into a disk that a
> company claims is 10 Megabytes.
>
> There is a huge difference, that you refuse to see.

Many people ignore the fact, that "mega = 1 000 000" is an international standard. 1 megabyte is exact 1 000 000 bytes, nothing else.

For information about prefixes for binary multiples from IEC 60027-2:1999-01 look at:
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/pub/doc/ISO/information-units
http://physlab.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
http://www.iec.ch/tclet6.pdf  page 4

For the ISO 8601 "date and time format" look at:
http://www.iso.ch/markete/8601.pdf

Bye, Rainer
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