[Sussex] Do we confuse you?
Thomas Adam
thomas at edulinux.homeunix.org
Sat Apr 9 03:26:45 UTC 2005
On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 01:29:01AM +0100, Geoffrey J Teale wrote:
> Worse still, to many a computer geek "K" = 1024 (which is a problem,
> because in the "real world" "K" always means 1000).
>
> So what is it - do we have 1000 bytes in a Kilobyte or do are we
> expecting all the computers to fail in the year 2048? Does this mean I
> get another bonus? ;-)
http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?BinaryUnits
-- Thomas Adam
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