language misuse (Was: laser scope

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Wed Mar 25 16:35:00 CDT 2009


> > I'm still tilting at 1,024,000 as a "megabyte".

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Jim MacKenzie wrote:
> Versus 1,000,000?  or versus 1,048,576?

YES.

I use 2^20.
But, I can understand the SI/"Mebibyte" argument of 10^6





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