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billpg
on April 6, 2014
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Why is 1 GB equal to 10^9 bytes instead of 2^30?
I was in a shop looking for a camera SD card and they were all listed with capacities in "Gb". I thought it was unusual to see these sold by the gigabit. (Turned out they weren't.)
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