[10.10 64bit]-Why 8GB RAM Shows 7.8GB ?

Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knugum at gmail.com
Thu Dec 23 18:18:15 UTC 2010


Den 2010-12-23 06:48:47 skrev win <win22 at pochta.ru>:

> O 8GB ofmemory should be 8,589,934,592 bytes (which is significantly
> more than200MB > 8 billion).
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> see the screen of my memory card properties
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Memory cards, hard drives etc are in GB (decimal – 1 GB=10⁹ B).
Internal memory, on the other hand, are in GiB (binary – 1 GiB=2³⁰ B),but  
often, unfortunately, referred to as GB anyway for some reason.

So your example is not relevant in this case, sorry.

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Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg




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