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List:       opensuse-factory
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-factory] 64 bits isos for the RC2
From:       Felix Miata <mrmazda () earthlink ! net>
Date:       2013-02-28 21:30:51
Message-ID: 512FCC8B.3080704 () earthlink ! net
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On 2013-02-28 19:21 (GMT) Graham P Davis composed:

> I reckon the 4.7Gb is an advertising gimmick to make it seem they hold
> more than they do. The figure is achieved by counting in 1000s instead
> of 1024s.

There's no gimmickry involved. 1000 and 4.7GB are decimal values, powers of 
10, numbers most people use and understand better than binary, octal or hex. 
4.7GB is approximately equivalent to 4.4GiB, which is a power of 2.

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
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