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derekp7
on April 6, 2014
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Why is 1 GB equal to 10^9 bytes instead of 2^30?
They could also just standardize their storage sizes on the higher number and still advertise the higher number -- i.e., instead of selling a 300GB hard drive, they could sell a 322.12GB drive, which stores 300GiB.
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