Re: Re: Downloads Page

Jim Roepcke <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.plone.installers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wednesday, March 17, 2004, at 01:18  PM, Mark F. Murphy wrote:

> At 9:04 PM +0100 3/17/04, Alexander Limi wrote:
>> On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:37:26 -0800, Mark F. Murphy <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> And...
>>>
>>> The Mac OS X Installer is 29.5 MB.
>>
>> Actually, no. :)
>>
>> http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
>>
>> Mac OS X installer: 30886669 bytes.
>>
>> If you want to be a nitpick, I can play that game too :]
>
> 1024 B = 1 KB
>
> 30886669 B/ 1024 = 30162.7626953125 KB
>
> 1024 KB = 1 MB
>
> 30162.7626953125 KB / 1024 = 29.4558229446 MB
>
> I'm old-school.... where a K is 1024 and a M is 1048576.

This is a computer scientist vs. physicist (and the rest of the world) 
thing that won't be settled until us old-timers are pushing up daisies 
(or 2038, whichever comes first).  Programmers will always want to use 
the power-of-2 version, and nobody else will.  Technically, the 
programmers are wrong, but then we usually are, or at least that's what 
we're told. ;-)

RAM is still measured in the old way isn't it?  256 MB of RAM still is 
256*1024*1024 bytes right?

Jim

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Jim Roepcke
Tyrell Software Corp  <http://www.tyrell.com/>



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