spc3r21c.pdf tupo kib != KiB

Matthew Jacob mj at feral.com
Fri Jan 21 14:32:31 PST 2005


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* Matthew Jacob <mj at feral.com>
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>>
>> Hmm?
>>
>> 10**3 << 2**10
>
> Yes, given a fixed price, if you're buying, then you want to buy one
> tebibyte, not just one terabyte.
>
> But if I'm selling, given that same fixed price, then I want to sell one
> terabyte, not approximately 0.931322574615478515625 tebibytes.
>
> Agreed?

*ow*

Yes.

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