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- From: lew@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Kevin A. Lew)
- Subject: Re: The maxtor 213 meg drive is NOT 213 megs!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.103209.21401@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 10:32:09 GMT
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- >>213,000,000 is not 213 megs (213 megs=213*1024*1024)
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- 213,000,000 bytes *IS* 213 Megabytes. MS-DOS lists the free space
- you have on your hard drive in bytes. Since MEGA = 10^6,
- 213 Megabytes is 213,000,000 bytes. In addition, 1 kilobyte is not
- 1,024 bytes. It is 1,000 bytes. I just studied this stuff in
- a communication networks course and when I was studying for the CS GRE..
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- Hope this clarifies things..
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