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Subject:Re: why bytes are Bs and not bs From:Kris Olberg <kjolberg -at- IX -dot- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Sat, 7 Jun 1997 11:46:31 -0500
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> From: Jeff or Steph <koosfam -at- ADVANCENET -dot- NET>
>
> A "meg" is a million bytes, correctly represented as "MB," (Note the
> uppercase "B") due to the metric prefix abbreviations.
Sorry to pick nits, but a "meg" is 2^20 bytes, which equals 1,048,576
bytes.
Keep this in mind: one K is actually 2^10 bytes (1024 bytes). One M is
equal to 1024K, which, by substitution, is (2^10)(2^10) = 2^20.
Regards...Kris
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