Re: Re[3]: [Syllable-developer] 1000 vs. 1024

[Anthony J. <Ant...@bt...>]

Yes, agreed that would be very confusing - I wouldnt really advocate using 
different measurement in the different contexts. I was meerly trying to 
point out that the only real justification for using powers of two does not 
apply to many contexts of the measurement (network, diskspace, filesizes 
etc).

Anthony
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Kirchner" <mk...@fr...>
To: "Anthony Jacques" <syl...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 9:59 AM
Subject: Re[3]: [Syllable-developer] 1000 vs. 1024


> Hallo,
>
> AJ> Just because a byte is 8 bits does not require that any measurement in 
> bytes
> AJ> must be in binary. Measuring sizes of RAM in powers of 2 makes sense 
> simply
> AJ> because when you make it, the natural sizes to make are powers of 2, 
> so you
> AJ> do it to get nice round numbers. When talking about file sizes, they 
> are not
> AJ> going to be constrained to sizes of powers of 2, so I dont see a 
> strong
> AJ> argument for using a base 2 system over base 10 (which clearly more 
> people
> AJ> are happy with).
>
> I see one problem with using different kB, MB, GB sizes for RAM and
> Disc-Memory. If you have 1GB of RAM (in fact 1.024^3 = 1.0737) and you
> want to make a swap partition you would choose it to be 1GB rather
> than the 1,0737 needed to swap the whole RAM.
>
>
> Michael
>
>
>
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