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bluet, thanks for turning me onto kibibytes, mebibytes, gibibytes, and tebibytes. i've been misusing système international units almost always!

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for example, my hard drives are 250GB or 640GB in size. the resultant volume is 1104290383872 bytes (1028 GiB or 1 TiB).

1104290383872 bytes is 1104.290383872 GB which is about 1104 GB or 1.104 TB, not 1028 TB.

:)

zing

1 104 290 383 872 / (1 024^3) = 1 028.45056

1 104 290 383 872 / (1 000^3) = 1 104.29038

oops, yeah, 1104 GB or 1028 GiB.


> zing

thanks for the attitude

s/T/G/

> thanks for the attitude

You're welcome! Glad you can take some teasing every now and then :D

> s/T/G/

indeed. sigh--i'll get it correct eventually.

so it is almost exactly 1.0 TiB.