Re: [OM] Sandisk MicroSD memroy cards

[Chuck Norcutt]

The real reason for the use of binary has to do with the addressing of 
memory.  The address lines have to be binary.
Chuck Norcutt


On 4/8/2016 11:29 AM, Larry Griffin via olympus wrote:
> The reason may not be as Technical as I thought. Computers operate with
> binary math therefore 2^1000=1024 per this article;
>
> http://pc.net/helpcenter/answers/why_1024_bytes
>
>
> On 04/08/2016 03:28 AM, 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
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