[Linux-Anyway] Re: checking the md5sums of burn CD's
- From: Godwin Stewart <gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 09:29:23 +0200
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 00:02:14 +0100, John Richard Smith
<bagsofchoice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Just out of curiosity , 2048 , how does it come to be that number,
> does this signify something in particular in binary systems ?
I honestly don't know why 2048 was chosen. You'd have to read the Yellow
Book for that, but it is a natural power of 2 (2^11).
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