[windows2000] Re: British gigabytes

On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 13:05:05 -0800, Alfonso Lopez de Ayala wrote:

>While we're on the subject... how come a billion is e9? It should be
>e12!

Don't confuse the below prefixes with "regular" numbers. 8-)

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sorin Srbu [mailto:sorin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20
>Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 1:04 PM
>To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [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. ;-)
>
>.
>.
>.
>k =3D kilo =3D 10^3
>M =3D Mega =3D10^6
>G =3D Giga =3D 10^9
>T =3D Tera =3D 10^12
>.
>.
>.
>
>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-)


BW,

Sorin

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