GiB vs. GB

[Thiago Macieira]

Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
>Well, in the kilobyte and megabyte days I would have agreed, but now
> that we're into giga and now tera, doesn't the difference increase
> (1000^n vs 1024^n)?

If you still had only files of less than 10 kilobytes, yes.

Now that your files are several megabytes in size, like you said yourself, 
the difference is still the same.

You can fit as many 10 kB files in a megabyte as you can fit 10 MB files 
in a gigabyte.

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