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Re: [LUG] Megabyte was Re: I thought this might get a bit of a reaction

 

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:01:01 +0000
Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Simon,

> Disk drives are 10^6 bytes
> Memory it is 2^20 bytes
> Guess that is the kind of simple(?) answer that only humans could
> create.

You are, I'm sure, aware of the reasoning for 1024 bytes rather than
1000, per kB of RAM?

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