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Re: Bad Metric ... 1k = 1024 or 1000?
> > Notwithstanding the above, those who argue that, for memory,
disk, file,
> > ... size, "1k" is a standard unit = 1024 can find some support in the way
> > file size is reported by popular operating systems. For example, GS System
> > and Windows 95 both use 1k = 1024.
>
> So does the Mac. Not sure about Unix (I don't recall seeing any
> abbreviations - it displays file sizes in directory listsing as an exact
> number of bytes).
Well, maybe the new G3 and iMac ones, but my Mac certainly doesn't use 1K
= 1024. The get info box says a 140K disk image is 143K.... Or wait...
Maybe it's rounding it off to the nearest 6.5K (the size of a sector on my
hard disk)? Hmm... I'll have to think about that...
>
> Does anyone know of any operating system on any platform which uses K, M
> or G abbreviations, and which defines them as being 1000, 1000000 and
> 1000000000 instead of 1024, 1048576 and 1073741824?
I like to use K, MB, and GB (not KB, or M, or G).
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