Ki and Mi/Gi/Ti etc. well known but mostly ignored (rightly or wrongly
in the real world :) <something derogatory about ordering of pencil
hardness grades in a pocket protector deleted here>
davidt
On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 06:28:15AM -0400, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> See <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte> which says we old guys
> still don't do it right. 1024 bytes should be called a kibibyte to
> differentiate from 1000 bytes, a kilobyte. That was decided in 1998 but
> I've never heard of it until now. Clearly not very popular.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 4/7/2016 6:45 PM, Larry Griffin via olympus wrote:
> > Chuck, I don't doubt that you are right on your math, I was just hoping
> > for something in the Ballpark. When I started to do the math I realized
> > I'd forgotten how to deal with the large numbers hadn't done it in 20
> > years. IIRC (and that seems to be doubt :(^) there is a technical reason
> > for the 1024 and it has been with us since 64k system. Remember how we
> > could do with just 64k of memory on the mother board.
> >
> > Larry G
> >
> > On 04/07/2016 02:42 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> >> There's an error in your math. 1 gigabyte is 1024x1024x1024 =
> >> 1,073,741,824. Multiplied by 196 that's 210,453,397,504.
> >>
> >> The difference between 1 billion bytes and 1 GB is approx 7.4%.
> >>
> >> It was the disk drive marketers who started all this crap.
> >>
> >> Chuck Norcutt
> >>
> >> On 4/6/2016 6:33 PM, Larry Griffin via olympus wrote:
> >>> I forget what all the usual increments are since digital 1000=1024
> >>> bytes, but 196GB (a usual increment) is 200704000000 gigabytes, but why.
> >>> I like Piers idea its a nice simple explanation bad sectors.
> >>> L
> >>>
> >>> On 04/06/2016 02:44 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
> >>>>> I don't do Amazon any longer, so I just took a quick look, there
> >>>>> prices
> >>>>> lessor memory cards. Sounds like your getting stabbed by the
> >>>>> conversion or
> >>>>> amazon. I thought 200 was strange, but I haven't bad sectors in
> >>>>> sometime. I
> >>>>> haven't any transfer speeds on SD and microSD cards. I just replaced
> >>>>> the SD
> >>>>> in my PEN with a wifi SD & microSD the AG1 told me to do it.8)
> >>>> And life is so much better, isn't it?
> >>>>
> >>>> Me thinks that those 200Gb cards are actually 192GB.
> >>>>
> >>>> AG Schnozz
> >>>
> >
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