Re: Consistent K
Or 1.47 MB (1,474,560 Bytes). That the norm is 1.44 suggests that in addition to such as memory, where the sensible unit is based on something like physical address lines, it makes sense for the K, M, G, and T units to be based on integer powers of 2 in computer contexts where they map to power of two based memory. Use of powers of 10 seems to be largely a marketing technique used for consumer storage devices; "80 GB" or "320 GB" EIDE consumer devices tend to store nearly the same number of bytes as 73 - 75 GB or 300 GB SCSI server drives.
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