Kushal Kumaran (12025-01-07): > I point people to http://www.tarsnap.com/GB-why.html which is where I > was first enlightened.
Mostly something anybody should learn in junior high school physics, freshman high-school at worst. Except for one point: “this is a special case”. Except they are wrong about where the special case: it would be absurd for the same unit to mean something different depending on what it measures, so if you accept that one giga-octet of RAM is 1024^3 octets, you have to accept it everywhere of be ridiculously inconsistent with bad practical consequences. -- Nicolas George
