[Coco] Totally OT: Terabit memory device

Theodore Evans (Alex) alxevans at concentric.net
Sun Jul 18 00:41:33 EDT 2004


On Jul 17, 2004, at 7:58 PM, KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:

> Really?  One gigahertz is a billion cycles/second.
> Actually, a gigabyte is about 1.05 billion bytes as human reckon 
> things.

You are a little off.  1 megabyte is about 1.05 million bytes, but a 
gigabyte is around 1.07 billion bytes (1,073,741,824) or for those from 
the commonwealth 1.07 thousand-million.

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Theodore (Alex) Evans | 2B v ~2B = ?




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