From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat May 15 4:41:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 626D814E8D for ; Sat, 15 May 1999 04:41:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id UAA13844; Sat, 15 May 1999 20:41:09 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <373D3065.EE7677B4@newsguy.com> Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 17:29:26 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mavery@mail.otherwhen.com Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: time for another upgrade? References: Your message of "Thu, 13 May 1999 20:30:13 +0200." <19990513203013.A19145@foobar.franken.de> <199905132159.QAA27048@hostigos.otherwhen.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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