"Error splicing file: File too large"

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 11:40:17 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 10:26:19 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>>one describes exactly 1000 megabyte, the other describes 1074 megabyte
>>... they are different units for decimal [1] vs binary [2]
>>measurement, one is just more fine grained than the other, thats
>>all... and i dont think there is any rule "what you should use".  
>
>In the past one KB, MB ... always was related to 1024, by the nature of
>the binary system, which simply is the base of computers. It became an
>odd fashion after a while, to wrongly use the computer term Byte in
>combination with decimal. To distinguish nowadays it's important to
>use KiB, MiB ... .

PS:

One Byte = 8 Bit, set or cleared, 256 128 64 32 16 8 4 2, how those
bits are interpreted differs, but it never results in decimal values
based on 1000, they are always 2 ^ something. You can't compare it
with cm vs inch.