RE: [Dev-C++] Bits Bytes megabytes help needed

[Ioannis V. <iv...@em...>]

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> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 10:38 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Dev-C++] Bits Bytes megabytes help needed
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> Hello Eric and all Dev-C++ users,
> 
> Tuesday, September 2, 2003, 9:03:03 PM, Eric wrote as follows:
> 
> EC> Bit bytes megabytes
> 
> EC> Can you tell me how to convert theses by hand?
> 
> First, and very important: if we are talking about binary (computer
> based) system we do not use k, M or G... these are used in physics,
> not in computers... only hard driver makers use these to cheat (yeah,
> I call it cheating!) customers... with computers use:
> 2^10 - Ki - kilo binary... so we have KiB (kibibytes) and Kib


Those Kibi-stuff are not recognised worldwide. The established stuff are 1
Kilobyte=1024 bytes and so on.






Ioannis Vranos
 
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