On Saturday 21 October 2006 18:19, Ron Youvan wrote:
> > 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 ???)
Yes that's the simple and somehow too obvious answer. We know to 1024 on the
one side of the equation, and a thousand of those we still want to think is
1,000. Quite right!
--Steve Szmidt
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