Hi,
I just FDISKed a 428 meg hard drive and this program says that
1MBYTE=1048576BYTES. I hope that this clears things up for everyone.
John Amirault
Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Sam Ismail wrote:
> > No, a megabyte is not a power of two number. A megabyte = 1,000,000
> > bytes. So 1.44 megabytes = 1.44 million bytes = roughly 1,440,000 bytes.
> > So 1.44MB disk drive is not a misnomer.
>
> Since those disks have a formatted capacity of 1,474,560, how do you
> arrive at 1.44 not being a misnomer? It would seem to me that using
> 1,000,000 bytes per megabyte would make that 1.47, not 1.44. Could you
> explain?
>
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Received on Sat Jan 23 1999 - 13:10:15 GMT