When does a billion not equal a billion?

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 2:48 pm

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Technology/W ... 40912.html

Depends whether you're talking base2 or base10... DUH!!

I think we've
been aware of this for years now?

The lawsuit against Western Digital alleged the company's 80-gigabyte hard drive had an actual capacity of 74.4 gigabytes. If not for that 7 percent shortfall, the buyer could have stored an additional 80 hours of digital music or 5,600 digital pictures, the suit claimed.

(Over)stating the fact alittle?

Regards

Eisenmann · Post by **Eisenmann** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 11:23 am

in german a billion is not 1000 millions a billion is million millions

that's confusing lol

KiLlEr · Post by **KiLlEr** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 1:27 pm

and don't forget, FOrmatted capacity is not the same as the raw capacity.
You loose a nice chunk when you format it.

Bishop E-10 · Post by **Bishop E-10** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 8:57 am

You donot need to quote the post immediately above yours when posts. - K

True, True...

plus, adding on space taken for format and drive information installed even after low-level formatting.

btw, a bill doesn't equal a bill when you're compairing singaporian currency with european currency.