On Apr 14, 2007, at 7:36 PM, Thibouille wrote:

> Very common. Same goes for hard drives.
> Manufacturer sell devices with capacity calculated as if (only
> marketting purpose of course) 1GB was 1000 MB, 1MB = 1000KB and 1 KB =
> 1000 Bytes which of course wrong (1024, not 1000).

To be pedantic, SI prefixes really are base-10 so IMO the  
manufacturers are actually telling the truth.

- Dave



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