Re: measuring systems (was: Selenites)

Tommie Powell wrote:
> A square mile is 102400 square rods.  A kilobyte is 1024 bytes -- not 1000
> bytes -- for the same reason: It's very practical to some extra bytes (or
> some extra square rods) because not all of the bytes (or square rods) are
> going to be available for consumers to use.
Wrong.  The reason for 1024 bytes is the binary system.  1024 = 2^10.
102400 = 320^2, while 100000 isn't a square number.  A square mile is an
area which is 320 rods on a side.

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