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Subject: Re: minor typo
Author: Xavier Roche
Date: 08/17/2002 09:46
 
> > one kibibit  1 Kibit = 210 bit = 1024 bit 
> > one mebibyte  1 MiB = 220 B = 1 048 576 B 
> > one gibibyte  1 GiB = 230 B = 1 073 741 824 B 
> Well how about that!  I learn something new everyday :)

Yes, and this is a common error - hard disk manufacturers 
respect the SI standards (1MB = 1,000,000B), but software 
vendors generally don't (Microsoft: 1MB=1,048,576B)
 
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