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Re: OT: Rant about degres Celsius (was: introduction)

From:Andrew Chaney <adchaney@...>
Date:Monday, December 3, 2001, 6:34
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.