[windows2000] Re: British gigabytes
- From: "Alfonso Lopez de Ayala" <alopezdeayala@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 13:05:05 -0800
While we're on the subject... how come a billion is e9? It should be
e12!
-----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. ;-)
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k =3D kilo =3D 10^3
M =3D Mega =3D10^6
G =3D Giga =3D 10^9
T =3D Tera =3D 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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