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Re: Re: (OT) Help!! - Lost Gb's during Hard Drive format!!
There are plenty of terms that have more than one meaning depending on
context.
The use of kilobyte and megabyte to mean 2^10 and 2^20 respectively were
accepted in the field of computing long before the hard disk
manufacturers got to them.
Mal
mark_harrison_uk2 wrote:
>--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "UKHA" <mailinglists@v...>
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>>That's very true Mark, but I think this is more about Marketing
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>>things look better/bigger than they really are) rather than
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>>standards vs. maths...
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>>Lee
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>Oh I agree.
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>I just find it bizarre that IT people will leap to defend the
>INCORRECT use of scientific terms, because the CORRECT use of terms
>has been reccomended by a marketing department :-)
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>Mark
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