[windows2000] Re: British gigabytes

On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:49:10 -0500, Costanzo, Ray wrote:

>So, someone told me that in the land of the UK, 1,000 MB is a TB, and
>1,000 TB is a GB.  True of false?  If true, what the hell is wrong with
>you people over there?  :P

The person was wrong. No brits are flawless. ;-)

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k = kilo = 10^3
M = Mega =10^6
G = Giga = 10^9
T = Tera = 10^12
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Thus a Terabyte is 1 000 Gigabyte is a 1 000 000 Megabyte is a 1
000 000 000 kilobyte. Unless I screwed up on some zeroes
somewhere... 8-)

HTH.


BW,

Sorin

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