Using standardized SI prefixes

Scott James Remnant scott at ubuntu.com
Wed Jun 13 14:06:16 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 15:01 +0100, Alex Jones wrote:

> 1 TB is not rounded. It means precisely 1 × 10^12 bytes, no more and no
> less.
> 
No it doesn't.

The meaning of 1 TB depends on the context, and has always done so.

Scott
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