[Gllug] Bytes to Megabytes

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On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, John Winters spake:
> 1) Marketing types who spend their time trying to find ways to deceive
> people without actually getting caught.  Once one of them realised that
> he could make things seem bigger if he used a definition of 1000x1000 we
> started to find the term used ambiguously.

We also see 1024x1000, even more ridiculously.

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