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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Archos HD UpgradeRe: Archos HD Upgrade
From: Jürgen Hestermann <juergen.hestermann_at_gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 20:26:43 +0100 > For the SI-Definitions Mega equals to 10^6. Mega is only a prefix and > is completely independent from the unit its used with. In that sense > this is perfectly correct. Yes, this all started when some ignorant computer people thought that 1024 is 'nearly' 1000 (kilo) and therefore began to call 1024 byte a kilo byte. Not only that these both notations are meanwhile departing more and more (starting with 2,4% deviation for kilo, then 4,8% for Mega, 7,3% for Giga and already 10% for Tera byte) there where even mixed notations (floppy size)! What also confuses is that when the same number of bytes is indicated with different prefixes in base 2 notation the numbers can look very different. For example, 1012 Mega byte would not be 1.012 Giga byte but only 0,988! That's ridiculous! > Also you should notice: science and computer stuff is getting closer > all time. It's getting more dangerous to confuse the binary and > non-binary prefixes even for skilled people. So its really useful and > needed to have a clean definition. > Computer-only people may find this useless, but there is a world > outside of computers. And there are a lot of people who *need* to work > with that machines even if they're not programmers. Yes, I fully agree. Jürgen Hestermann. Received on 2006-03-07 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |