Re: [SLUG] Challenge

From: Ron Youvan (ka4inm@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sat Oct 21 2006 - 18:19:27 EDT


> Here's an interesting mystery for those of you with too much time on your
> hands:

> We all know that capacity on computers is measured in bytes, where 1KB is
> 1024bytes. It arrives of course at 1024 since we deal with a binary system
> which grows like this.

> 2 4 6 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024

> Pretty straight forward.

> Now some of you have 1GB RAM. When you run a check on that the number that
> shows up is 1,048,048.

> How do they arrive at 1,048,048?

   What is 1024 X 1024 ? (1048576) minus some kind of over head.
(like the directory structure ???)

-- 
    Ron  KA4INM
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