Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 17:29:26 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: mavery@mail.otherwhen.com Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: time for another upgrade? Message-ID: <373D3065.EE7677B4@newsguy.com> References: Your message of "Thu, 13 May 1999 20:30:13 %2B0200." <19990513203013.A19145@foobar.franken.de> <199905132159.QAA27048@hostigos.otherwhen.com>
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Mike Avery wrote: > > > >1024^3 > 86400*10^8 > > Hmmm - should that be 1024^3 or 1000^3? I suspect it depends on > who you talk to. The difference is between 1,073,741,824 and > 1,000,000,000,000. Not a big difference - around 7%. It doesn't depend on anything. It is 1024^3, and everybody who says otherwise is plain wrong. This is not a matter of opinion. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Proof of Trotsky's farsightedness is that _none_ of his predictions have come true yet." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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