Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:13:17 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>, questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: standard powers of two Was: Drive Space - Am I Getting All I Should? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0206051210060.29324-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <3CFC98EA.9000908@potentialtech.com>
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On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Bill Moran wrote: > Unfortunately, there's no standards body that has stated what the value > is for a G, so the HDD manufacturers are free to do whatever they want. There are "proper" values for kibibyte, gibibyte, etc. I kid you not. I think NIST or IEC were responsible. The "giga" prefix _is_ an SI prefix meaning 10^9. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Semantic rules, OK? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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