Re: OT: Rant about degres Celsius (was: introduction)
| From: | Andrew Chaney <adchaney@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 3, 2001, 6:34 |
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on 30/11/01 8:09, Christophe Grandsire (christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR) wrote:
>
> Of course, it doesn't work anymore with mega- and giga- (it's
> mandatorily M and G), and there a confusion arises (for instance, the computer
> I've just bought has officially a 40Gb hard drive, but Windows sees 37.2Gb or
> something. It's because the official number is calculated as: 1Gb=1000Mb,
> while Windows uses: 1Gb=1024Mb).
>
Some of the size difference is b/c formatting the disk uses some space on
the disk.
andy.