Re: why bytes are Bs and not bs

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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