[citation][nom]quantumrand[/nom]It's a computer, not a metric measurement. The numbers correspond correctly.1KB is 1024bytes, 1MB is 1024KB, and so on. It's just the nature of a binary computer. Most everything is done in powers of 2.Now, how the Russians handled their nomenclature with their trinary computers? I have no idea...[/citation]
Everything is done in powers of two. Already knew that.
So it's the nature of computers that computers can't divide by 1000?
Your calculator will surely contradict that fact.
The current use of the prefixes conflicts with the Si prefixes.
That's why there are those something-i-bytes mentioned.
The right nomenclature is described here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte
Read this article, this link was actually needed in my first post.
The correct way of noting down the numbers with the correct standards and prefixes:
1024B = 1KiB, 1024KB = 1MiB, not KB and MB.
Stating that 1024KB = 1MB is actually not correct.
It's just used a lot. It's adopted as the normal way but it's not the right way to represent things.
It's: 1024KiB = 1MiB or 1000KB = 1MB.
Have you researched that kato128?
Don't accuse people of laziness before you have researched the matter yourself.