From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 21 22:50:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CD4637B401 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 22:49:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com ([216.196.73.168]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Sun, 21 Jan 2001 22:48:05 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com (8.11.1/8.11.0) id f0M6nuf70131; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 22:49:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 22:49:56 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: JSMolinaro Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Ratio Message-ID: <20010121224956.J10761@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from JSMolinaro@hotmail.com on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 01:07:32AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 01:07:32AM -0500, JSMolinaro wrote: > I've forgotten what the byte to megabyte and megabyte to gigabyte ratios are > can someone please give me the numbers again. I'm trying to win an > argument. To hard disk manufacurers, 1 megabyte = 10^6 bytes To everyone else, 1 megabyte = 1024^2 bytes Also, when talking about tranfer rates, a MB/s is often refers to 10^6 rather than 1024^2. Note that, 1024^2/10^6 = 1.048576 Now, when talking about gigabytes, it is usually 1024^3... but sometime it is 10^9. Or even better, sometimes people mix the powers of two and ten, so that they call (10^3)(1024^2) a gig. See, http://webopedia.internet.com/TERM/k/kilobyte.html -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message