Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 22:49:56 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: JSMolinaro <JSMolinaro@hotmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Ratio Message-ID: <20010121224956.J10761@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> In-Reply-To: <OE44QtpfTYSl1q4gtop000023be@hotmail.com>; from JSMolinaro@hotmail.com on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 01:07:32AM -0500 References: <OE44QtpfTYSl1q4gtop000023be@hotmail.com>
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On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 01:07:32AM -0500, JSMolinaro wrote: > I've forgotten what the byte to megabyte and megabyte to gigabyte ratios are > can someone please give me the numbers again. I'm trying to win an > argument. To hard disk manufacurers, 1 megabyte = 10^6 bytes To everyone else, 1 megabyte = 1024^2 bytes Also, when talking about tranfer rates, a MB/s is often refers to 10^6 rather than 1024^2. Note that, 1024^2/10^6 = 1.048576 Now, when talking about gigabytes, it is usually 1024^3... but sometime it is 10^9. Or even better, sometimes people mix the powers of two and ten, so that they call (10^3)(1024^2) a gig. See, http://webopedia.internet.com/TERM/k/kilobyte.html -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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