On Monday 20 January 2003 04:55 pm, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, christopher j bottaro wrote:
> > hello,
> > i know that when talking about ram, a megabyte isn't actually 1,000,000
> > bytes, but rather 1,048,580 bytes.  but when talking about the capacity
> > of a cd-r,
>
> oooooh ... so close.  1,048,576.
>
> rday

oops, kcalc only gives me 5 digits of precision in scientific notation...but 
my trusty ti-89 says 2^20=1,048,576...=)

-- christopher



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