Bitsavers size in historical units

[Mr Ian Primus]

--- On Mon, 5/4/09, Tim Shoppa <shoppa at trailing-edge.com> wrote:

> Christian Corti wrote:

> > No it hasn't ;-) The current total size of
> Bitsavers (everything including
> > bits and pdf) is 96 GB on a ZFS "partition".
> 
> Maybe I did not make myself clear enough. When I wrote
> 100 Gigabytes, I meant 10**11 bytes, because as I see the
> archive with
> rsync there are 100461300404 bytes in it. Certainly when I
> made the other
> calculations I used 10**11 bytes.

Ah, so you used hard disk manufacturer's "lying" gigabytes... <grin>

A bit is a single one or zero. A byte is eight bits. A kilobyte is 1024 bytes. A megabyte is 1024 kilobytes, and a gigabyte is 1024 megabytes.

So, in that case, 100461300404 bytes/1024 comes out to 98106738.68 kilobyes.

divided again by 1024 to get 95807.36 megabytes...

divided again by 1024 gives us 93.56 gigabytes.

100 gigabytes = 107374182400 bytes.

<grin>

-Ian