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Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:03:14 +0000, Graham Murray wrote:
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>> chris <ithinkiam@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
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>>> It's not marketing. It's the IUPAC standard. All kilo-, mega-, giga-,
>>> etc. suffixes must be base 10.
>> What has the Internation Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry got to do
>> with magnetic media storage sizes?
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> Scientific institutions defined the meanings of the Kilo-, Mega-, Giga-,
> Tera- etc. prefixes to mean multiples of 10^3. IUPAC was party to that
> definition.
>
> They were subsequently misused by the computer industry to indicate
> multiples of 1024.
Graham's right. I meant SI standard. A couple of neurons must of got
crossed and there I was back doing my Chemistry degree...
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